ACCIONA Energa has signed an MOU with Stanwell Corporation, a Queensland government-owned corporation, for future energy supply via a direct connection between ACCIONA Energa’s Aldoga photovoltaic plant and the Stanwell-led CQ-H2 consortium’s proposed large-scale green hydrogen electrolysis facility.
A feasibility study for the Central Queensland Hydrogen Project is being carried out by a consortium led by Stanwell Corporation, which includes Japanese companies Iwatani Corporation, Kawasaki Heavy Industries, Kansai Electric Power, and Marubeni Corporation, as well as the Australian group APT Management Services (APA) (CQH2).
The CQ-H2 project is a proposed 3,000MW electrolysis facility that would help central Queensland industries decarbonize while also exporting some of its production. By 2026, the factory hopes to create roughly 100 tons of hydrogen per day, with the capacity increasing to 900 tons per day by 2031.
Following an agreement with the Queensland Government for the land needed to build a 600MWp solar PV facility on the Central Queensland coast, ACCIONA Energa has passed a critical milestone in the development of the Aldoga PV plant.
Other projects involving the development of green hydrogen have ACCIONA Energa involved. Together with Enagás, Cemex, and IDAE, the company will open the first industrial-scale green hydrogen generation plant in Spain before the end of 2021, with a production capacity of more than 300 tons per year, on the island of Majorca. The facility is at the heart of the Green Hysland project, an innovation project co-funded by the European Commission’s Fuel Cell and Hydrogen Joint Undertaking to create a green hydrogen ecosystem in Mallorca that will serve as a model for other islands (FCH JU).
The Power to Green Hydrogen Mallorca industrial project would see hydrogen used in a variety of ways across the island, including fueling buses and rental cars powered by fuel cells at a hydrogen filling station that would be built specifically for this purpose, generating heat and power for commercial and public buildings, and serving as an ancillary energy source for ferries and port operations.
ACCIONA Energa has formed AccionaPlug, a joint venture with Plug Power of the United States, to study green hydrogen market prospects in Spain and Portugal. AccionaPlug combines Plug Power’s electrolysis technology and expertise in hydrogen for mobility with ACCIONA Energas’ track record in managing renewable technology projects around the world, with over 11.2GW installed, and its position as Spain’s and Portugal’s largest independent marketer of 100% renewable energy.
