March 25, 2022. The Iberian association for sustainable mobility, Gasnam, has held an online conference to present the Basque Hydrogen Corridor, a pioneering initiative, born from the hand of Petronor and Repsol, to advance in the decarbonization of transport, among other sectors.
The guests at this presentation were welcomed by the General Secretary of Gasnam, Eugenia Sillero; the President of the Basque Hydrogen Corridor Association, José Ignacio Zudaire, and its Vice President, Íñigo Ansola.
During her speech, Sillero stated that “green hydrogen is synonymous with energy security, sustainability and economic development” and she underlined the importance of this energy vector to decarbonize heavy transport that is difficult to electrify.
For his part, Zudaire elaborated on the words of the General Secretary of Gasnam and insisted that the Basque Hydrogen Corridor will also be a great asset for the area: “We must turn the great challenge of the energy transition into an opportunity for the reactivation economy of the territory and contribute to technological and industrial development”.
Ansola, General Director of the Basque Energy Entity, considered that we are facing “a key and strategic project, where public-private collaboration is going to be the backbone. It will serve to create a value chain, a new ecosystem that will generate jobs and that will be essential in the goal of decarbonization.”
According to the person in charge of hydrogen projects at Petronor Innovation, Arturo Fernández, “the Basque Hydrogen Corridor consists of the creation of a hydrogen ecosystem in the Basque Country to develop projects and advance in the decarbonization of the economy, improving the competitiveness of the Basque industry”, he summed up, after adding that it was officially constituted in October 2021 and that 78 companies are currently involved in it, hoping to form alliances with other industrial ecosystems, share similar European experiences, enable transport corridors and value hydrogen as a renewable resource.
