A consortium formed by Técnicas Reunidas and Siemens Energy has been awarded the design engineering contract for the "La Robla Green" project, which will launch one of Europe's largest renewable methanol plants in the town of León. Specifically, the Spanish company Reolum, a specialist in innovative energy transition solutions, has commissioned the consortium formed by Técnicas Reunidas and Siemens Energy to provide the front-end engineering design for the project as a preliminary step toward its future physical execution in La Robla (León). The facility, with a production capacity of 140,000 tons per year, will combine biogenic carbon from a biomass cogeneration plant with renewable hydrogen to produce e-methanol, Técnicas Reunidas reported in a statement on Monday.
According to the scope of the contract, Siemens Energy's work will focus on the renewable hydrogen unit, while Técnicas Reunidas' work will address the biogenic carbon capture and e-methanol production units. Mitsubishi Heavy Industries will also license the CO2 capture, and Johnson Matthey will provide its own technology, called 'eMERALD,' which enables the direct hydrogenation of captured CO2 into methanol. This project is part of 'Track,' Técnicas Reunidas' decarbonization strategy, one of the pillars of 'Salta,' the strategic program the company launched last May. However, the development of this engineering phase will be the preliminary step toward the physical execution of the plant, which will be carried out through an 'EPC' (engineering, procurement, and construction) contract.
On February 21, the Ministry for Ecological Transition and the Demographic Challenge allocated €180 million to the project, charged to Next Generation EU funds, in the provisional resolution of the call for aid for the creation of seven large renewable hydrogen clusters, located in Aragon, Andalusia, Castile and León, Catalonia, and Galicia, which are part of the Renewable Hydrogen Valleys program.
