The Global Hydrogen Ports Coalition, a worldwide organization focused on encouraging the distribution and usage of hydrogen in logistics and ports, includes the Port of Baha Blanca.
Hamburg, Houston, Rotterdam, Antwerp, Vancouver, and Valencia, as well as other international port corporations, share that special seat with the local station, which is the only one in the country.
The proposal was unveiled at the XII Clean Energy Ministerial (CEM), an international government gathering that has met every year since 2009 to discuss challenges connected to the energy transition.
“The port of Bahia Blanca’s participation is part of a new national goal to encourage hydrogen production, consumption, and export. “We are the country’s sole port,” Federico Susbielles remarked a while back.
This, according to the president of the Baha Blanca Port Management Consortium, is in accordance with the quest for an Argentine hydrogen strategy, as well as other regional efforts.
“The International Energy Agency has gathered together a group of ports to stimulate the growth of hydrogen. It is a fantastic development option for export and for encouraging the development of renewable energy as a port.”
Susbielles, who was present at the beginning of the coalition of ports, expressed his delight in representing Argentina in this working group, which aims to minimize fossil fuel emissions by identifying hydrogen as one of the most important values in this line.
“We have no doubt that the transit and road to hydrogen generation and storage is an important aspect of the sustainability that we want to develop in our port and in the country,” he added.
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Brunsbüttel (Germany), Flam (Norway), North Queensland Bulk Port (Australia), Pecém Port Complex (Brazil), Antwerp (Belgium), Auckland (New Zealand), Baha Blanca (Argentina), Berlevg (Norway), Brisbane (Australia), Duqm (Oman), Farsund (Norway), Grenland (Norway), Göteborg (Sweden), Hamburg (Germany), Houston (Texas (Chile).
It also includes the Sea Ports Organization (ESPO), Hydrogen Council, International Association of Ports and Harbors, and New Energy Coalition associations, as well as the companies Lehmann GmbH and Woodside Energy, the municipal administration of Bremen (Germany), and the Sea Ports Organization (ESPO), Hydrogen Council, International Association of Ports and Harbors, and the municipal administration of Bremen (Germany).
In terms of the port region of Bahia Blanca’s potential for the development of these technologies, the government recognizes that the country has significant potential for producing gray hydrogen with carbon capture and green hydrogen.
“Grey hydrogen continues to be the most cost-effective in terms of obtaining it through electrolysis with present technology,” according to Nicolás Deza of the specialist media site Econojournal.
“Gas pipeline systems are viewed as critical assets across the world when considering a future hydrogen economy. “They may be customized for any type of hydrogen transfer,” he noted.
In this regard, the Port of Bahia Blanca stands out as an ideal location for hydrogen storage and export.
“Our port has a variety of energy sources. Oil pipelines and multi-purpose pipelines run through, and we have a lot of wind energy generation and solar energy viability,” Susbielles added.
The province of Buenos Aires is one of the primary places of concentration of wind generating in the country, with 1,177 MW of installed electricity, much of it in the province’s south and in the Baha Blanca area, thanks to the quality of its winds.
“The Hychico facility in Chubut, operated by the Capsa Group, is already using wind resources to manufacture hydrogen on a trial scale throughout the nation,” Deza stated.
“The port is a member of Y-TEC, the YPF technology business, which established a collaboration for hydrogen research and development in the nation. Participate in the exports work cell, which will be critical to the hydrogen economy’s survival.”
Shipping via ship is still one of the most difficult tasks. Transforming hydrogen into ammonia, for example, allows it to be carried in a smaller volume and with greater safety, but the cost of this procedure (including the subsequent conversion back to hydrogen) is still uncompetitive.
More than 80% of the country’s energy matrix is devoted to oil and gas.
