The newly formed Green Energies management’s big commitment: its new commercial brand Navantia Seenergies, which made its debut in the context of this European event attended by 8,000 people and involving roughly 330 enterprises.
With it, Navantia takes a decisive step into the renewable energy market, leveraging its long experience in the naval sector, though “without starting from scratch,” as the company’s newly created Green Energies department’s head, Javier Herrador, put it, because there is already “an accumulated past around renewable energy.”
Ricardo Dominguez, the company’s president, has pointed to that experience: the 11 offshore wind energy projects completed in five different nations since 2014, resulting in a turnover of 900 million euros.
“We’re still working on it, and we’ve chosen to keep moving forward. Navantia, as a public company, is committed to sustainability, with that commitment to looking to the future, towards renewable energies, in which we believe we are a critical piece, with our partners, with whom we work every day, as tractors of an auxiliary industry that today accompanies us in shipbuilding and has truly allowed us to build large ships, with our partners, with whom we work every day, as tractors of an auxiliary industry that today accompanies us in shipbuilding and has We are certain that it will enable us to pursue exciting wind energy prospects “, has stated during the brand presentation at the public company’s display at the WindEurope expo.
Hydrogen
Navantia Seenergies will promote activity related to hydrogen, whose development is linked to the S-80 submarine program, both in production, through the manufacture of electrolyzers in the Ferrol Turbine Factory, and in ship propulsion, through the integration of fuel cell solutions and hydrogen technology or derivatives, it has been explained.
“Hydrogen is an important energy vector for energy storage and transportation decarbonization. Since Navantia has been working with hydrogen for years in our Cartagena shipyard as part of the S submarine program -80, we have a lot of synergies “, noted the company’s president.
“Navantia Seenergies aims to make use of the synergies between these two energy vectors, which are the wind in the sea and hydrogen,” Javier Herrador stressed.
But it’s also about moving farther, “making use of all of our knowledge and all of our resources to attempt to climb inside the value chain to go from where we are today, the building framework, to a complete solution for consumers.”
The CEO of Green Energies also mentioned the investment with Windar to create the XXL monopile, stating that “we want to continue investing and taking advantage of this line of innovation,” which is related to the establishment of the centers of excellence. He claimed that “a whole series of corporations are already eager to take the plunge with us.”
