Alcazar de San Juan hosted the signing of the memorandum of understanding between the president of Castilla-La Mancha, Emiliano Garcia-Page, and the multinational Envision to build a renewable hydrogen production plant in this town, which will involve an investment of 900 million euros.
The Minister of Industry, Trade and Tourism, Reyes Maroto, has witnessed the signing of the document.
Maroto pointed out that the Envision project will be developed in three autonomous communities, Extremadura, Castilla y León and Castilla-La Mancha, and stressed the privileged position and the future that Alcázar de San Juan will have with the start-up of this plant, which will generate between 500 and 700 jobs.
The objective of the energy project that Envision will start in Alcázar will be the production of renewable hydrogen and the manufacture of electrolyzers. Construction will begin in 2023 and is scheduled for completion in 2027.
For his part, the president of CLM, Emiliano García-Page, said that “rarely is it possible to achieve a combined project between three autonomous communities, only here 250 direct jobs at the start of the project, in addition to the magnet effect of attraction that a company of this type represents”, said the head of the Castilian-La Mancha Executive, who took the opportunity to thank the president of the Spanish Government, through Minister Maroto, for his mediation to ensure that Envision stays in this region.
García-Page has highlighted this cooperative approach with the Government of Spain and has been convinced that “this is not smoke, here we have signed the beginning of an important idyll that will only change to grow more,” he said, while he has had words of recognition to the work that the Minister of Industry, Tourism and Trade, Reyes Maroto, plays every day in the areas that occupy it.
The memorandum signed this morning by President García-Page, in the City Hall of Alcázar de San Juan, is “a clear commitment to the industry that is linked to the generation of employment”, he said, convinced that “this company will be talked about for generations”.
Meanwhile, the non-executive president of Envision, José Domínguez, said that the purpose of the multinational is to have in Alcázar de San Juan the generation of sufficient electricity to feed the production of green hydrogen and the electrolyzer factory, “that is, the machines that transform water by decomposing it into hydrogen and oxygen so that we can store the hydrogen and transport it wherever it is needed”.
