📋 Tender Overview
The Minister of Industry, Energy and Mining, Elisa Facio , participated in the presentation of the Uruguayan Hydrogen Association (AUH) . During the event, held at the UCU Business School on April 10, the results of the H2 study in Uruguay: Opportunities and challenges , prepared by the Energy and Sustainable Development Observatory of that study house, were also announced . request of the Chamber of Construction of Uruguay (CCU).
Minister Facio spoke at the activity; the Minister of the Environment, Robert Bouvier; that of the president of the AUH, Ignacio Morga; the president of the CCU, Alejandro Ruibal; the director of the CCU Ignacio Vázquez; and the rector of the UCU, Julio Fernández.
The AUH is made up of the CCU, the Chamber of Industries of Uruguay, the Uruguayan Chamber of Logistics, the Uruguayan Association of Renewable Energies and the Association of Private Electrical Energy Generators. Soon, Morga announced, other chambers and professional associations will join.
Minister Facio and Minister Bouvier participated in a panel moderated by Juan Manuel Mercant, member of the Energy and Sustainable Development Observatory. There, the head of the Ministry of Industry, Energy and Mining (MIEM) said that the creation of the AHU is a “milestone in the nascent industry” of green hydrogen and its derivatives. In addition, she valued the work carried out by the organizations that make up the new association, in coordination with the public sector, to “crystallize” this important “opportunity” that is presented to Uruguay.
Facio stated that “the hydrogen economy is and must be an integrated development strategy.” For this reason, the MIEM works on the basis of four pillars to promote it.
