September 13, 2023. The President of the Port of Huelva, Alberto Santana, and the CEO of Enagás, Arturo Gonzalo, have signed in Huelva, Spain, a protocol to identify innovation opportunities in the field of renewable gases such as hydrogen and Bio-LNG, which lays the foundations to advance in the decarbonization of future logistics projects in the Huelva terminal.
The President of the Port Authority thanked Enagás – which has a regasification plant in the Port of Huelva – for “its willingness to collaborate jointly in the development of new fuels”, and assured that “the Huelva port has converted into an energy and industrial cluster, promoting clean fuels as stated in one of the three axes of the Strategic Plan of the Port of Huelva 2023-2030, with a vision to 2050.”
For his part, the CEO of Enagás has highlighted “the key role of the Huelva Regasification Plant as an energy hub that reinforces Europe’s security of supply, in which we continue working to improve capacity, flexibility and operational availability, as well as such as progress in the decarbonization process, focusing on the operation and value chain with renewable gases.”
The agreement, signed at the headquarters of the Port Authority of Huelva, will serve to lay the foundations for technical and economic analysis of services with renewable gases, the identification of new infrastructure and interconnection, and the development of commercial missions and contacts with agents of the sector, as well as the study of access to possible financing funds.
The specific objectives set by this agreement are to promote the incorporation of renewable gases in the development of the integrated logistics chain, promoted in the field of liquefied natural gas (LNG) by the European project CoreLNGas Hive, which has allowed the Port of Huelva to become key energy hub, and advance the development of Bio-LNG and green hydrogen linked to the future Spanish Hydrogen Backbone Network.
In the short term, the agreement will allow exploring Bio-LNG bunkering logistics projects (supply to ships) that will reduce the carbon footprint of the entire supply chain.
