(ADN).- Once again, representatives of the European Union and member countries held a meeting with political and institutional representatives of the country, to give impetus to the development of green hydrogen. Argentina remains in debt in regulatory matters and is still debating the framework law that was stuck in Congress during the last administration.
The meeting was attended by national deputies (including Río Negro), and representatives of the delegations of the European Union, Germany, Spain, France and the Netherlands, and representatives of the Environmental Policy Circle.
Juan Carlos Villalonga and Carina Quispe also participated from the Environmental Policy Circle, a member organization of the H2 Argentina Platform that promoted the meeting.
Green hydrogen is an energy vector that allows us to decarbonize industry and other sectors of the economy that are not feasible to be electrified. In addition, it represents an opportunity to export the renewable energy produced in the country to other regions. One of the most important demand markets for green hydrogen will be the European Union.
Ambassador Amador Sánchez Rico expressed himself along these lines: “We are serious about green hydrogen because we need this source within the framework of our green transition strategy.”
For his part, Juan Carlos Villalonga stressed that, at the local level, for the development of green hydrogen “the national regulatory framework is as important as what happens in the provinces.”
“In this future, we are now trying to have a regulatory framework proposal text that is appropriate to the current context. The important thing is to incorporate other actors to have a very high support base, to propose to legislators something that has strength,” he stated.
Present at the meeting were deputies Lorena Villaverde (LLA-Río Negro), president of the Energy and Fuels Commission of the Chamber of Deputies; Martín Maquieyra (PRO-La Pampa), vice president of the Energy Commission; Nicolás Massot (We make Federal Coalition -Buenos Aires); Roxana Reyes (UCR-Santa Cruz); Maximiliano Ferraro (Civic Coalition – CABA); Juan Manuel López (Civic Coalition – Buenos Aires); Ana Clara Romero (PRO- Chubut); José Glinsky (UP-Chubut); and national senator Edith Terenzi (Together for Change – Chubut), president of the Senate Environment Commission. The provincial representative of Chubut, Karina Otero, also participated in the activity.
From the diplomatic field, ambassador Amador Sánchez Rico and cooperation attaché Pablo Iglesias Rumbo attended on behalf of the Delegation of the European Union in Argentina. Additionally, Peter Neven, Minister of the German Embassy, joined; Juan Manuel Albisetti, commercial advisor of the Economic and Commercial Section of the Embassy of the Netherlands; Mar Serrano, commercial advisor at the Spanish Embassy; Alejandra Gesto, sector attaché of the Regional Economic Service of the French Embassy; and Stephan Remler, from the GIZ German Cooperation Agency.
