Mexico – Green hydrogen plant and solar park to be built with 2,572 million dollars
The Ikal Solar company plans to develop the project “Ikal H2 Photovoltaic Park for the Production of Green Hydrogen” which will mean a total investment of 2,572.7 million dollars (mdd) in the municipality of Mina, Nuevo León (NL) in the next six years.
According to information released by the company, the total amount will be made up of $13.4 million for site repairs, $2,444.8 million for construction, $87.6 million for operation and maintenance, $26.5 million for dismantling and abandonment, as well as $350,000 for mitigation measures.
The project will have a photovoltaic solar park that will generate a total of 2,865 MW in direct current and 2,448 MW in alternating current, and will produce 124,071 tons of green hydrogen per year.
Ikal Solar explained,
The solar park will consist of 4 million 408 thousand 740 photovoltaic panels with a power of 650 Wp each, which will be installed on a surface of 1,408 hectares (ha), but the total area of the project polygon is 4,045 ha,
He explained that in addition to the power plant and the hydrogen plant, a 230 kV connection line will be built, with a length of 10.6 km, and a hydroduct for the transportation of hydrogen of just over 10.9 km that will go from the H2 plant to the valve of the existing Escobedo-Castaños gas pipeline.
Ikal Solar noted that the main objective of the project is the production of green hydrogen, with the potential to provide decentralized energy to the transport, industrial and construction sectors, which is important for the social and economic development of the region and the country.
It is worth noting that in June of this year, NL and Houston, Texas, were chosen to strengthen the hydrogen chain in both regions by participating in the H2 Twin Cities program, an initiative of the Clean Energy Ministerial supported by the United States Department of Energy.
The growth in demand for green hydrogen at the state level is expected to be driven by new uses of this gas in transport, the production of ammonia for non-conventional uses and decarbonisation in steel production, as they have the greatest potential for adoption by 2050, according to a study by the NL government.
The Ikal Solar project is long-term, as the company estimates that the site preparation and construction phase will last 6 years.
The company explained,
The development of green hydrogen production projects is part of the direction that the Mexican government is promoting for the energy transition, together with the objective of Blending hydrogen and natural gas established in the 2023-2027 Electric System Development Program of the Ministry of Energy,
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