Energy & Science

Chile Mulls Financial Aid for Green Hydrogen Projects

Energy minister Jobet speaks in interview from Santiago
Details will be announced next month in global summit

Chile’s Minister of Energy Juan Carlos Jobet discusses his country’s competitive advantages for the production of green hydrogen in an interview with Bloomberg News. (Interview was conducted in Spanish.)Source: Bloomberg

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By Eduardo Thomson

October 1, 2020 at 7:15 PM UTC

Updated on

October 2, 2020 at 11:00 AM UTC

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Chile’s government is considering ways to boost the attractiveness of green-hydrogen projects as the biggest copper-producing nation strives to become carbon neutral.

“We will announce the details early November,” Energy Minister Juan Carlos Jobet said in an interview in Santiago. “It will come in the form of some financial assistance to allow investors to have returns during the early stages of the projects.”