Centralised Purchasing System For Biomethane And Green Hydrogen

In its current wording, Decree-Law 62/2020 of 28 August allows the member of the Government responsible for energy to establish support mechanisms for the production of gases of renewable origin or low carbon content gases. The aim of these mechanisms is to achieve cost parity between these gases and natural gas or fossil fuels.

Following on from this, Ministerial Order 15/2023 of 4 January was published recently to establish the centralised purchasing system for biomethane and hydrogen produced by electrolysis from water using electricity from renewable energy sources and then injected into the national gas network. This is a mechanism to support the production of renewable gases injected into the public network by signing supply contracts between producers and the