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La Comisión Europea ha aprobado un plan de ayudas de 440 millones de euros impulsado por España para apoyar la producción de hidrógeno renovable, de acuerdo con las normas europeas sobre ayudas estatales. El programa se llevará a cabo a través del sistema de “subastas como servicio” del Banco Europeo del Hidrógeno y está relacionado con la subasta que se cerró en febrero de 2026. El objetivo es impulsar la descarbonización de la industria europea y mejorar su competitividad, dentro de las metas del Pacto por una Industria Limpia. Según las previsiones del Gobierno español, este plan permitirá construir hasta 382 MW de capacidad de electrólisis, una tecnología que produce hidrógeno a partir de electricidad renovable. Además, se espera que el programa permita producir hasta 243.800 toneladas de hidrógeno renovable, lo que ayudaría a evitar la emisión de cerca de 1,79 millones de toneladas de CO₂. También contribuirá a que España alcance su objetivo de instalar 12 gigavatios de electroliz...

The demand for carbon-free hydrogen fuel is expected to grow tenfold by 2050, as the race is on to transition away from fossil fuels and hydrogen produced by fossil fuels. Hydrogen fuel is made for uses in fertilizer, transportation and heavy industries like steel and iron production.  Currently, about 95% of hydrogen is created through a process that uses fossil fuels. But there are new methods being developed to create “clean hydrogen,” which is seen as part of the solution to achieve global decarbonization and net-zero commitments. As a global leader in the nuclear industry, Westinghouse is defining the role nuclear power will play in clean hydrogen production. We are exploring the use of water electrolysis at existing Light Water Reactors and in our advanced reactor designs to create as much as 150,000 tonnes of clean hydrogen per year from a single reactor.

Hydrogen is a chemical element; it has the symbol H and atomic number 1. It is the lightest and most abundant chemical element in the universe, constituting about 75% of all normal matter. Under standard conditions, hydrogen is a gas of diatomic molecules with the formula H2, called dihydrogen, or sometimes hydrogen gas, molecular hydrogen, or simply hydrogen. Dihydrogen is colorless, odorless, non-toxic, and highly combustible. Stars, including the Sun, mainly consist of hydrogen in a plasma state, while on Earth, hydrogen is found as the gas H2 (dihydrogen) and in molecules, such as in water and organic compounds. The most common isotope of hydrogen, 1H, consists of one proton, one electron, and no neutrons.