(Adnkronos) - Il ministro Pichetto Fratin: “Italia Hub per lo smistamento dell'idrogeno proveniente dal Nord Africa sul continente Europeo”
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00:00International experts, members of the governments of the Mediterranean basin and international investors have gathered in Venice for the Venice Hydrogen Forum, the event on the decarbonized hydrogen theme and its future developments.
00:18First of all, the prospects of a distribution infrastructure that can connect Europe and the Mediterranean, passing through Venice.
00:26Venice is one of the places, of the poles, of the seats of the strategic reflection on hydrogen.
00:32In particular, what we have dealt with is the Mediterranean.
00:37It is an innovative strategy of cohesion between the two banks of the Mediterranean, the northern bank that consumes and the southern bank that produces.
00:51And this is also an element of geostrategic cohesion.
00:56That is to say, it unites the two banks in a non-Leonin form, but in a partnership.
01:04Europe has decided to target by 2030 a community production of 10 million tons of renewable hydrogen and 10 million tons of imports.
01:14The countries of the southern bank of the Mediterranean will be connected to the European continent through 3,300 km of South Corridor.
01:22In this scenario, Italy has allocated more than 3.5 billion euros for the national production of hydrogen.
01:29The National Hydrogen Planning Agency expects a whole series of actions, of electrolyzers, of interventions.
01:38At the same time, there is a broader assessment that has seen us sign an agreement with Germany and Austria
01:47to be a hub, a place of transfer to the continent of hydrogen production that can come from our country
01:58or it can happen in North Africa.
02:01One of the main problems of the hydrogen economy has always been the higher costs in production and transport, but not only.
02:09We have seen that costs are decreasing dramatically.
02:12So we think that ammonia is already being traded, that in a few years it will already be competitive in itself.
02:19But there are also policies that help the demand, the off-tech, to take the risk of investing.
02:25Hydrogen is a challenging challenge, explains Gabriele Lucchesi of Edison Next,
02:29which requires a change of pace in both European and national industrial policy.
02:33All the development of renewable energies to produce hydrogen for electrolysis is very important
02:41and poses important challenges, especially in the light of a very rigid European norm.
02:46The message we want to convey is that we generally need a market that does not exist, that is balanced,
02:51a more flexible and pragmatic approach to give time to the landing of the first projects and therefore the start of a hydrogen economy.