Paraguay could double global green hydrogen production

RIO DE JANEIRO, BRAZIL – Bogarín said that hydrogen production reaches 4,000 tons/year and that if the country were to convert its “export-type” energy into this product, it would generate 4,500 tons/year of green hydrogen, thus reaching a global total of 8,500 tons/year.

Regarding the international tours conducted last year to promote the low-carbon industrial economic zone, to be implemented from 2023 in the Tacurú Pucú peninsula (Hernandarias), he said that, as Paraguay’s only technology park, its managers have “the obligation” to think disruptively.

“They tell us that we are crazy and we like it, but the disruptive tries to solve problems in a simple and novel way,” he said.

Bogarín added that the current ITP officials believe that having energy alone “is not enough,” and that it is also necessary to transform it in order to add value and wealth to the country; while the environment is just as important.

On this point, he noted that the planet “is dying” due to human action and that the management of CO2 is becoming critical, because it is causing global warming, melting glaciers and leading to climate change.

He stated that the environment must also be a “national cause,” like energy, and that the goal is to provide the country an industrial identity.

“Up to now we assemble Chinese equipment, we assemble pieces and parts from other countries, we manufacture, all of which is very good, because we generate jobs, but why not have a green, sustainable and durable industrial identity,” Bogarín said.

He added that when talking about “low carbon,” the world is referring to electric mobility (vehicles), green hydrogen, alternative renewable energies, such as solar, wind and others that are at the same time sustainable and green, ecologically sustainable. “That drives us to try to bring to Paraguay the billions that will certainly generate many jobs.”

With respect to the by-products of green hydrogen, he said that the country has all the necessary conditions to produce in its own territory the equivalent of oil, the gas that comes from water, called green hydrogen. He clarified that hydrogen also comes from oil, which acquires a gray color, because it is unclean.