Energy Argentina signed today an agreement with the Government of the province of Santa Cruz and the city of Pico Truncated to the launch of a hydrogen plant at that location.
Signature led forward by Energy Argentina, Oscar Cretini, director of New Business, Luciana González, president of the Institute of Science, Technology and Innovation of Santa Cruz, and Osvaldo Maimó, mayor of Peak Truncated. Also present were Mario Metaza and Mariano Barrier, members of the board of Enarsa, among others.
This is a pilot plant for production of hydrogen by means of this joint initiative between the company, the province and the municipality will be taken to a semi-industrial scale. In addition, it means a specific action of Energy in Argentina for the development of the hydrogen economy in the context of climate change and the challenge of the energy transition.
“This agreement, which drives the president of our company Augustine Gerez, shows the accompaniment of a National Government that thinks a model country in which the development, industrialization of energy vectors and stimulating the integration of the harmonic of the regions,” said Cretini and remarked that “with this project, we are complying with the targets that you thought of Néstor Kirchner when he created Enarsa”.
“Today we are taking a fundamental step in this plant, which is an old desire of the truncadenses and one of those pioneers who imagined that such developments were possible,” said Metaza and explained that “in 2010 all city vehicles operating on hydrogen, but unfortunately in 2015 with the change of local government is paralyzed everything.”
For his part, Gonzalez stressed that: “we are proud to carry forward these projects punta thinking of the possibilities of hydrogen and water for the truncadenses, which will allow us to achieve the provincial and local development”.
Finally, the mayor Maimó thanked the support of Enarsa and recalled that this project was born in 1999: “we Always knew that it was the way and thanks to the work with the Nation and the province, we are much closer to make it happen on the scale that we had always dreamed of”
