The Prime Minister defended this Wednesday that the production of green hydrogen will allow Portugal not only to produce the energy it consumes, but also to become an export country, in what he classified as a “structural change in the economy” .
During the signing ceremony of the contracts under the first support program for the production of renewable hydrogen and other renewable gases, in the context of the recovery and resilience plan (PRR), António Costa stressed that “one of the country’s chronic problems is energy dependency”and the weight energy has on the national trade balance, which was exacerbated by the war in Ukraine.
“If we free ourselves from fossil fuels, we not only free ourselves from fuels that emit carbon into the environment, but we also make a decisive contribution to a more balanced balance of payments and trade”defended.
The Prime Minister stated that with projects like the one signed today, in addition to the country no longer importing much of the energy it consumes because it will produce it, the country must have another ambition for the future.
“We can become real exporters of the energy we produce and this is a structural change for the future of our economy, which will transform the country for at least the coming decades, and this is an opportunity we should not pass up”warned.
Source: DN
