Enel advances Chile’s first green hydrogen project

摘要

Italian energy group Enel is planning to build the first project to produce green hydrogen in Chile, a country that experts are tipping to be a major player in the fuel's future. Subsidiary Enel Green Power Chile, or EGP, is developing studies to install a hydrogen production plant in Chile’s southernmost region of Magallanes. The plant, which could enter production as soon as 2022, would be powered by wind energy, the company said Oct. 2. “For Enel, Chile has always been a laboratory for innovation,” said EGP Chile’s general manager James Lee Stancampiano, highlighting the company’s investments in South America’s first industrial-scale geothermal energy plant. It would not only be the first green hydrogen plant in Chile but also one of the largest in Latin America, the company said.