1. Page 1 IEA_HIA Task 30 Kick-off meeting Maria del Pilar Argumosa Renewable Energy laboratory – INTA argumosa@inta.es Germany, 16-17 September 2010 SPANISH HYDROGEN RESOURCES AND UTILIZATION

2. Page 2 Spanish Hydrogen and FC activities Different kinds of Spanish entities participate in European projects, IEA_HIA tasks, and they are active members of PTE_HPC INTA works, besides of other technical issues, on collecting data about the activity of this sector. 1996 2005 The main target of this organization is to facilitate and accelerate the development and use of fuel cells and hydrogen based systems in Spain TASK 18 H2 Data Base: National publications National Projects Entities State of the art of the H2 and FC identifying,: basic research, development and innovation, applications, industries, technological centers, users and training, Analysis of HyWays routemap results for Spain: Critical analysis and national experts comments about HyWays prospects for Spain according to the updated situation and resources.

3. Page 3 PRODUCTION  Commercially the hydrogen is produced by hydrocarbons reforming (nafta and natural gas) or gasification, by industrial gas companies as Air liquide, Carburos Metalicos, Praxair, Messer and Abello Linde.  There is several plants around Spain (for example, Air liquide has H2 production plants in Puertollano, La Coruña, Sandander and Estarreja) UTILIZATION  The current commercial applications are mainly in the Chemical (plastics, oils,…) and petrochemical industry. Electronic industry for cooling and pure water production is also considered.  A small demand is appearing for energy applications, but only for demo projects. Current Spanish Hydrogen

4. Page 4 RES. Great potential. Industry involved. Leader position.  RES Based on Wind and PV energy: Activity lines: R&D on electrolyser and components, demo power plants, simulation and integration on mix electricity network,  RES Based on high temperature thermal solar energy and photolytic process Activity lines: Basic research (materials and process) and prototypes Facilities : Hidrosolar in Madrid; RES2H2 in Canary Island; W2H2, Almeria Solar platform, Solucar and INTA power plant in Andalusia, Sotavento in Galicia, Ither in Aragon and Hidrólica in the south region. Spanish Hydrogen Production

5. Page 5 Spanish Hydrogen Production  RES Based on biomass and bio ethanol Activity lines: Waste biomass, gasification and pyrolysis process  Fossil Fuels. Based on Coal, NG, and liquid fuels: Activity lines: Advanced IGCC, CO2 sequestration Catalyst, reformers and purification process Facilities: IGCC plant in Puertollano (Elcogas) with CO2S, lab prototypes < 5Kw  Nuclear. (vital role>security suply, red CO2 emissions) Activity lines: Hight temp electrolysis and Thermoelectrically cycles Diesel reformer (INTA)

6. Page 6 Hydrogen Utilization  Fuel cells aplications Activity lines: Integration and demonstration of fuel cells in electricity network, co- generation plants, remote power plants (Hidrosolar, First), residential applications, transport applications: buses, vehicles (Hercules), small airplanes (Boeing, Avizor); light vehicle (Hychain), auxiliary power (Deimos) and toys. Manufacturer and integration of vehicle components industry. Manufacturer of Mea´s and PEM stacks. Basic research on fuel cell components Facilities: Test bench, demo installations Citicell bus ( IVECO )) Avizor (INTA) Hercules Banco 2kW (INTA)

7. Page 7 Future Hydrogen resources The Spanish platform has made a detailed analysis of potential hydrogen production sources based on natural available resources and its future exploitation. Spain focus the H2 production from renewable sources as biomass and wind energy. The solar energy also will have an important role in the hydrogen production due to the prospect of electricity optimization costs. The RES in Spain are spread all around the country and it has enough potential to supply the future demand

8. Page 8 Future Hydrogen resources 2008 installed RE power capacity shared needed to produce the projected hydrogen demand in 2020. Source:PTE-HPC