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The Gijón regasification plant, without defined deadlines or uses | BE Gijón | Today for Today Gijón

The regasification plant of El Musel, without defined terms or uses to start operating. During a visit to the port facilities of Gijón, the president of Enagas assured that the processing of the plant, already built since 2012, runs its course and that the administrative authorization will determine the use of a project that does not renounce what is considered the best alternative to current fossil fuels: clean hydrogen.

The plant that this company finished building eight years ago is one step closer to opening after the approval of the environmental impact study, but there is work ahead. The uses it will have will depend on the administrative authorization, which is one of the pending procedures. At this point, the president Marcelino Oreja said that “there is nothing defined yet” and it is already advancing that it will be necessary to adapt the plant after years in hibernate state.

This project was initially conceived for the reception of liquefied natural gas, but now Enagás and Naturgy have formed an alliance to convert The Musel in a great exporting pole of green hydrogen to Europe, an objective for which the regasification plant plays an essential role. The Minister of Industry, Enrique Fernandez, defends the region’s potential for development as the fuel of the future.

With an investment of 380 million, the Gijón facility has never been operational because, first, the central government understood that there was not enough demand for natural gas to put it into operation, and later it was declared illegal by the justice when it was found less than 2,000 meters of a population center. The procedures to legalize it continue, with no date yet to operate.


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