Electrification has limits and Portugal wants to be a producer of green hydrogen
The Minister for the Environment and Climate Action defended this Wednesday, in Setúbal, that electrification has limits and that Portugal wants to be a producer of green hydrogen and not just a user, noting the contribution of the Ambiente+Simples project.
“Electrification has limits and we have to have a response strategy with regard to the production of renewable gases, which replace gases with environmental effects”, said Duarte Cordeiro, who spoke at the presentation of the first Licensing Reform package – Environment + Simple, in Alcochete, Setúbal.
The Governor won that Portugal wants to be a producer of renewable gases, such as green hydrogen, and not just a user, underlining the contribution of the Ambiente+Simples project to this objective.
As desired, the simplification of green hydrogen licensing, one of the measures planned in the project presented today, will accelerate this transformation in Portugal.
The Council of Ministers anxious this Wednesday the beginning of the reform and simplification of the environmental licensing, eliminating authorizations, procedures and licenses.
With this diploma, the executive intends to simplify the activities of companies and encourage investment, meet administrative burdens and costs.
Even so, as he noted, this was accepted without prejudice to compliance with environmental protection rules.
In this sense, the Public Administration will have “a special approach to surveillance, leading to greater co-responsibility and self-control on the part of economic operators”.