LatAmOil: Green hydrogen plans for Chilean LNG terminal

Two Spanish companies are looking to build a green hydrogen production facility at Chile’s Quintero LNG import terminal. One of the companies is Enagas, which owns a 45.4% stake in the terminal’s operator GNL Quintero, and the other is Acciona Energía, a subsidiary of Acciona.

According to a statement from Enagas, the parties have joined forces for the project, which envisions the construction of a hydrolysis facility at the LNG terminal at a cost of $30mn. The hydrolysis plant will use electricity generated from renewable sources to generate green hydrogen at the initial rate of about 500 tonnes per year (tpy). Its power unit will have a generating capacity of 10 MW.

Enagas said that the hydrolysis plant might increase production later, as demand for hydrogen fuel rises. The project will provide Chile with an alternative source of fuel and energy that does not contribute to carbon dioxide (CO2) emissions and will support environmental remediation efforts in Puchuncaví and Quintero, two towns in the central Valparaíso region, it stated. It is also in line with the Chilean government’s National Green Hydrogen Strategy, it added.

The Spanish company did not say when work might begin on the hydrolysis plant.