Spain

Country: Spain

Document type: National Roadmap

Title: Hydrogen Roadmap – A commitment to Renewable Hydrogen (English translation enabled)

(Spanish language release)

(English language Executive Summary)

Released: October 2020

Summary Points:

  • The roadmap outlines a set of national targets for renewable hydrogen by 2030, including:
    • Production – Installation of 4 GW of electrolyser capacity, with an intermediate milestone of between 300-600 MW by 2024.
    • Industry – 25% of industrial hydrogen consumption to be from renewable sources.
    • Mobility – fleet of at least 150 buses, 5,000 light and heavy vehicles and two commercial train lines to be powered by renewable hydrogen, as well as introduction of (renewable) hydrogen-powered handling machinery at the main five ports and airports.
  • A set of 60 measures grouped by key policy areas support implementation, with key points including:
    • Regulatory actions, including development of a system of Guarantees of Origin that ensures hydrogen is produced from renewable sources.
    • Design of financial instruments to support hydrogen-intensive industries in the uptake of renewable hydrogen.
    • Identification of ‘consumption poles’ in order to create ‘hydrogen valleys’.
    • Sectoral measures to encourage renewable hydrogen projects and use.
    • Promotion of R&D across the hydrogen value chain and the national development of ‘high-powered’ electrolysers (100 MW scale).
  • It is estimated that the private and public investment to 2030 required to implement the strategy is at around €8.9 billion.
  • Note: In September 2024, the Spanish Government approved the update to the National Integrated Energy and Climate Plan 2023-2030 (PNIEC 2023). The updated Plan has set a target of reaching 12 GW of installed electrolyser capacity by 2030, up from 4 GW in PNIEC 2020. The updated Plan also sees increased wind generation, photovoltaic solar generation and power storage capacity targets of 62 GW, 76 GW and 22.5 GW respectively.

Strategic Project for Economic Recovery and Transformation (PETRE) of Renewable Energies, Renewable Hydrogen and Storage (ERHA)

In December 2021, the Spanish Government announced the Strategic Project for Economic Recovery and Transformation (PETRE) of Renewable Energies, Renewable Hydrogen and Storage (ERHA). This mechanism aims to allocate €6.9 billion of public funds supporting ERHA technologies with a further €9.5 billion expected to be mobilised from the private sector. Of the total of €6.9 billion of public funding, around €1.55 billion is to be allocated to development of renewable hydrogen (with expectations to mobilise €2.8 billion of private sector investment).

An addendum document to the Recovery Plan approved in October 2023 by the European Commission includes a new chapter aimed at financing actions under the RepowerEU initiative, with nearly €7 billion of funding, of which about €4.2 billion are directed to the PETRE of Renewable Energy, Renewable Hydrogen and Energy Storage. The investment funding available to renewable hydrogen is double that of the initial plan with the incorporation of an additional €1.6 billion for the development of the value chain, new pioneering projects, the creation of hydrogen valleys and the support of IPCEI projects.

For further information see Recovery, Transformation and Resilience Plan Government of Spain

Hydrogen Valleys

In July 2024 (17-07-24), in an address to the Lower House of Parliament, the President of the Government of Spain announced that ‘in the coming days’ the Executive would launch four new programmes with more than €2.3 billion to accelerate the energy transition in areas such as green hydrogen and the renewable energy value chain.

In July 2024, the EC announced it had approved a €1.2 billion Spanish scheme to support investments in the production of renewable hydrogen in hydrogen clusters or valleys. The scheme would support investments in the production of renewable hydrogen with an installed capacity of at least 100 MW: investments supported may encompass (i) the production of renewable hydrogen-derived fuels, (ii) renewable hydrogen storage, and (iii) the production of renewable electricity.

In June 2025, (MITECO) published the final resolution of the call for aid for the creation of large valleys or renewable hydrogen clusters, allocating a total of €1.22 billion to seven beneficiaries (12 facilities) with a total electrolysis power of 2,292 MW and the capability to produce 269,142 tonnes of renewable hydrogen each year.

H2Med Pipeline – CelZa and BarMar Projects / Spanish Hydrogen Network

(Note: in February 2025, Spanish Utility Enagas announced that it would invest around €4 billion over the next six-year period of which around €3.1billion would be allocated to the deployment of hydrogen infrastructure.)

In June 2024, agreements were signed or formalised to progress the European H2Med corridor – consisting of a connection between Celorico da Beira in Portugal and Zamora in Spain (CelZa – a 248-kilometre interconnection, 0.75 mtpa of hydrogen maximum capacity) and a maritime connection between Barcelona and Marseille (BarMar – a 455-kilometre sub-sea pipeline, 2 mtpa of hydrogen maximum capacity). Expectations were that the corridor would be completed by 2030.

In January 2025, the EC announced the allocation of almost €1.25 billion in grants from the Connecting Europe Facility (CEF) to 41 cross-border energy infrastructure projects, including:

  • A total of approximately €35.6 million in grants awarded for H2Med project studies with €28.34 million supporting the BarMar project and €7.22 million the Celza project.
  • A total of approximately €40.2 million for the first axes of the Spanish Hydrogen Backbone, including studies for underground storage related to the Spanish Hydrogen Backbone.

In July 2025, Enagas noted that the Transmission System Operators had signed a Shareholders’ Agreement which establishes the creation of a joint venture dedicated to the development of the BarMar project.

European Hydrogen Bank

In November 2024, in a joint release, the EC, Spain, Lithuania and Austria announced that the three Member States will participate in the ‘Auctions-as-a-Service’ scheme as part of the second European Hydrogen Bank auction. In addition to the €1.2 billion in EU funding from the Innovation Fund, the three EU Member States will deploy over €700 million in national funds to support renewable hydrogen production projects located in their countries, bringing the funding mobilised by the ‘IF24′ renewable hydrogen auction to around €2 billion.

In January 2025, media reports indicated that Spain plans to distribute €400 million among renewable hydrogen projects that met the criteria to compete in the EU’s pilot Hydrogen Bank auction in 2024 but whose bids were too high to be selected for subsidies. It is reported that the funding will add to the €1.32 billion (noted above) to be allocated to the development of hydrogen clusters or valleys. (In March 2025, MITECO published a Royal Decree that sets out the conditions for subsidising Spanish projects participating in this instrument of the European Innovation Fund, noting Spain will allocate a maximum of €400 million.)

In July 2025, media reports indicated that three Spanish projects had been successful in receiving funding awards under the European Hydrogen Bank’s Auction-as-a-Service scheme, with the projects receiving in total up to €372 million for a combined total of 485 MW of electrolyser capacity.

Other Funding and Initiatives

In October 2022, the EC approved under the Guidelines on State Aid for Climate, Environmental Protection and Energy 2022, €220 million grant funding to Cobra Instalaciones y Servicios, S.A. (‘COBRA’) to support the construction and installation of electrolysers in the Cartagena and Castellon regions of Spain (with the two electrolysers expected to have a total capacity of 205 MW).

In January 2023, media reports indicated the Spanish Government would implement a (new) grant award of €74 million to accelerate implementation of four projects – three being for electrolyser manufacture and one for the development of hydrogen-powered heavy transport vehicles.

In February 2023, the European Commission approved, under EU State aid rules, a €460 million Spanish measure to support ArcelorMittal to partially decarbonise its steel production facility in Gijón, where it operates two blast furnaces producing liquid hot metal. The aid will support the construction of a renewable hydrogen-based direct reduced iron plant. The plant is envisioned to start operating by the end of 2025.

In April 2023, media reports indicated that the Ministry for the Ecological Transition and the Demographic Challenge (MITECO) awarded around €200 million to renewable hydrogen projects within the PERTE ERHA framework:

  • €150 million granted to 19 projects as part of the H2 Pioneers call which includes initiatives to support the use of hydrogen in difficult to decarbonise sectors such as industry and heavy transport.
  • Almost €50 million granted to 18 projects related to equipment manufacturing for the production, transport and distribution of renewable hydrogen, submitted under call 1 and call 2 of the H2 Value Chain program.

In June 2023, MITECO announced aid totalling €100 million in supporting large electrolyser-based projects for the production of renewable hydrogen, and is included under the PERTE ERHA framework. The aid seeks to promote both the development of electrolysis demonstrators and initiatives for the integration of large capacity electrolysers in industrial environments.

In December 2023, media reports indicated that MITECO awarded €150 million to 12 projects under the second round of funding under the H2 Pioneers Program (and which in total would support 309 MW of electrolyser capacity).

In June 2025, MITECO allocated and distributed €524 million in direct aid to five projects for the use of hydrogen in large-scale industrial activities – these projects being part of the EC coordinated IPCE Hy2Use TF1 award round.

In June 2025, MITECO announced an award of €296 million to 33 projects aimed at strengthening the renewables value chain with 10 projects associated with the manufacture and assembly of electrolysers and other components for the production of green hydrogen (Note: one project supporting the manufacture of PV panels received almost €200 million).

 

Reviewed: August 2025