Plans to produce green hydrogen in Chile continue to move forward. The French company Total Eren announced that it is beginning studies for a large-scale green hydrogen production project in the town of San Gregorio, in the Magallanes Region. The company has already secured the land for the project and access to the sea. It also signed an agreement with the University of Magallanes to collaborate on conducting the project’s environmental impact study, among other matters. Total Eren’s project involves the construction of a wind farm, a water desalination plant, and an electrolysis complex to produce green hydrogen. It could reach a wind power generation capacity of up to 10 GW (nearly 13 times more than the largest wind farm currently under construction in Chile, Colbún’s Horizonte) to produce up to 800,000 metric tons of green hydrogen per year. (More information about the project at https://www.total-eren.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/12/PR-Chile_H2_02122021_ES_FINALV2.pdf)

This project joins the one that the HIF consortium is also building in Magallanes to produce green hydrogen and, from there, synthetic fuels by capturing CO2 from the atmosphere, as well as more than 60 projects that are in various stages of study or approval, all aimed at producing green hydrogen from wind and solar energy, according to the Ministry of Energy.