Uruguay

Country: Uruguay

Document type: National Roadmap

Title: Green Hydrogen Roadmap in Uruguay

Released: November 2023 (FINAL: original language version available)

Summary Points:

A draft Roadmap was released in June 2022 and was under consultation until mid-August 2023. The final version was released in November 2023.

The Roadmap outlines three phases of development (page 45 of Roadmap)

• Phase 1: 2022-2025 – focus on domestic market, development of regulations and pilot/demonstration projects; 200-400 MW of renewables capacity under development alongside 20 MW of renewables-based hydrogen production capacity with 100-200 MW in the pipeline.
• Phase 2: 2026 to 2030 – scaling up of the domestic market with appearance of export projects; targeting 1-2 GW of installed renewables capacity alongside approximately 1 GW of electrolysis capacity by 2030.
• Phase 3: Post 2030 – targeting around 18 GW of renewables capacity / 9 GW of capacity to produce hydrogen and hydrogen derivatives by 2040.

The Roadmap notes the potential for production of hydrogen derivatives such as e-methanol (for use in mobility applications) as well as potential for production of direct reduced iron (made using renewables-based hydrogen).

(Note: The Ministry of Industry, Mining and Energy website includes a report entitled “Green hydrogen and the potential for Uruguay: inputs for the development of Uruguay’s Green Hydrogen Roadmap” which summarises the results from the technical analysis on the opportunity that green hydrogen could represent for Uruguay. The study undertook preliminary evaluations of Uruguay’s competitiveness in the market for hydrogen, ammonia, methanol and green jet-fuel, among others, under different demand scenarios, in selected destination markets.)

 

Reviewed: October 2024