The Department of Education and Vocational Training has reached an agreement with Applus+ IDIADA to enhance teaching about hydrogen fuel cell vehicles among vocational training students at the Andreu Nin High School in El Vendrell. The agreement provides for the internationally renowned company in vehicle design, testing, and approval to provide specific training to the school's teachers to enhance content related to hydrogen cars, as well as the free provision of engines, vehicles, and other materials necessary for practical training with students.

Two projects of production of green hydrogen located in the Tarragona municipalities of Ascó and La Pobla de Mafumet have been provisionally selected in an aid grant announced this Friday by the Spanish government. According to the third vice president and minister for Ecological Transition, Sara Aagesen, these initiatives were given the "green light" within the plan for valleys and hydrogen clusters, which is endowed with a total of 1,214 million euros from the Next Generation funds of the European Union. In the case of the Catalan projects, the grant plans to allocate a total of 236 million euros for plants that require a total investment of 617 million. Other green hydrogen projects from Galicia, Castilla y León and Aragón have also been selected.

Green hydrogen is often presented as the key to energy transformation, but producing it still requires a lot of energy. This is the warning scientists such as David Cebon, professor of mechanical engineering at the University of Cambridge and member of the Hydrogen Science Coalition, created by academics and researchers to nurture the debate on the future of hydrogen. Cebon was in Barcelona to participate in the Global Assembly on Green Hydrogen, inaugurated by the Minister of Ecological Transition, Teresa Ribera, and there he wanted to make it clear that some of the uses we are now giving to green hydrogen are highly inefficient.

Aragon has managed to capture one of the largest green hydrogen projects in Spain thanks to the development of renewables in the region. The project will be eligible for support from European recovery funds through the PERTE for renewable energy, renewable hydrogen and storage.