Chile’s Piñera announces construction of country’s first green hydrogen plant

RIO DE JANEIRO, BRAZIL – “We must abandon our dependence on carbon-emitting fuels”. With these words, President Sebastián Piñera, announced this Sunday (26) the construction of the first green hydrogen plant in the far south of Chile.

The President announced the 24-hour Global Citizen LIVE mega-event. The international broadcast includes dozens of performers, activists, business leaders, philanthropists, and world leaders coming together to defend the planet and defeat poverty in support of Global Citizen’s “A Recovery Plan for the World” campaign.

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“The world cannot afford to continue on its current path. We must move away from our dependence on carbon-emitting fuels, and we must do it today, using the energy of tomorrow, green hydrogen,” the President said in a telematics address.

The project is expected to lead to the world’s first green hydrogen plant, which, once fully operational next year, will produce climate-neutral synthetic fuel that will reduce more than 100,000 tons of greenhouse gas emissions per year. The plant will use Chile’s strong winds in the Magallanes region to generate carbon-neutral fuel.

The plant will have a production capacity of 350 tons per year of methanol and 130,000 liters per year of gasoline and useful life of approximately 25 years from the start of operations.

“Together, we can defend the planet. We are all citizens of the world”, concluded the President.