Naturgy has reached an agreement with the Technological Institute of the Canary Islands (ITC), a public R&D&I center of the regional government, to share its knowledge and experience in order to validate the performance of an innovative electrolysis technology to produce green hydrogen.
Electrolysis separates hydrogen from oxygen in water, so if that electricity is obtained from renewable sources, energy is produced without emitting carbon dioxide into the atmosphere.
According to the International Energy Agency, this technology would save the 830 million tons of CO2 per year that originate when this gas is produced using fossil fuels.
In a statement, the energy company has stated that an experimental 2 kW electrolyzer prototype will be installed and tested to test the equipment design of this new technology and compare the results with those of current commercial systems.
"This project is expected to have advantages in terms of efficiency and cost reduction in the production of green hydrogen, due to the lower need to use scarce exhaustible materials, such as noble metals," he explained.
This technology, called 'Anion Exchange Membrane' (AEM), is developed by the Singaporean emerging company Sungreen, with whom Naturgy has been collaborating since September 2022.