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Update: solar hydrogen in Europe

Smartenergy is driving solar hydrogen production in Portugal. Christian Pho Duc, the company’s CTO and managing director H2 projects, discusses the EU regulatory environment, costs, and his motivation to equip photovoltaic plants with electrolyzers.

By

Michael Fuhs

07 Jun 2021

Christian Pho Duc | Image: Smartenergy

At the pv magazine Roundtables Europe event last year, you presented your plan for green hydrogen production in Portugal, in which you couple a utility-scale PV plant with an electrolyzer. What’s the status of the project? We continued our development at full pace, [even though] the legislative and permitting framework is not yet fully in place. …

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