CTG Brasil announces green hydrogen research center in Brazil

Date: 2022-08-18

Transforming the Suape Industrial Port Complex into a research, development and innovation space focused on the fuel of the future: this is the proposal of “TechHub” green hydrogen. Led by CTG Brasil in partnership with the National Department of the National Service for Industrial Learning (SENAI) , SENAI Pernambuco and the State Government, the initiative will concentrate in the Suape Port the implementation of innovative projects focused on production, transport, storage and green hydrogen (H2V) management. The project will have an initial investment of up to R$ 45 million.

The proposals were selected in the public call for “Green Hydrogen Strategic Mission”, promoted by the National Department of SENAI and CTG Brasil. The public call, whose result was announced in February, provided for an investment of R$ 18 million in the most innovative solutions capable of generating business related to the fuel of the future. This initiative is part of CTG Brasil’s investment strategy in R&D+ innovation, in line with the Research and Development Program regulated and promoted by the National Electric Energy Agency (ANEEL, in Portuguese).

Brazil has great potential for generating energy from renewable sources. For the director general of SENAI, Rafael Lucchesi, the country needs to increase investment in innovative and sustainable solutions. “We need to advance further in research. Our biggest challenge is to develop a diversity of sustainable and reliable energy matrices that will be able to supply the energy needs of a growing population”, he emphasizes.

“SENAI’s role is to collaborate in the implementation of these projects, which may contribute to increasing the attractiveness of our State. We see the Suape Port Industrial Complex as a way to test the viability of these projects in a real scenario, bringing together other companies and creating a true innovation hub”, explains the regional director of SENAI Pernambuco, Camila Barreto.

For CTG Brasil, the largest investor in the Green Hydrogen program, “TechHub” plays a key role in the company’s innovation strategy, contributing with solutions and new technologies that accelerate the energy transition and boost Brazil’s role in projects focused on an economy of low carbon. “One of the objectives of the initiative is to promote an ecosystem focused on the use of new technologies, improvement in the electrolysis process, increase in the total efficiency of the plant, cost reduction, training and proposition of new business models”, says Carlos Nascimento, Research and Development manager at CTG Brasil.

To connect all pilot plant investment initiatives implemented at TechHub, a digital trading platform for Green Hydrogen will be developed. “It is essential to trace and certify the origin of energy for the production of hydrogen, ensuring that the plant’s power source comes from 100% renewable energy, opening even more doors for the commercialization of what is considered the fuel of the future”, says José Renato Domingues, corporate vice president of CTG Brasil.

The Secretary of Economic Development of Pernambuco, Geraldo Julio, celebrates the initiative. “This Hub shows the capacity of the Suape Complex and its diversity in embracing projects from various segments. We are looking to the future, as green hydrogen is a global innovation, it has great potential for investment, sustainability and development of the green economy. In addition, it is visionary measures like this that will always keep us protagonists and appearing in the strategy of major global economic agents when talking about the Northeast and Brazil”, he points out.

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