Hintco Roadshow in Mexico City: opportunity for the green hydrogen market

To ramp-up the green hydrogen market in Mexico in view of its benefits for sustainable development and energy transition, the Mexican-Germany Energy Partnership held the event “Green Hydrogen in Mexico: Hintco Roadshow H2Global and collaboration opportunities” on April 30th  at El Colegio de Mexico.  

The first part of the event, the Hintco Roadshow, is part of the global presentation tour of the H2Global mechanism, in the framework of the publication of the second tender of this mechanism that seeks to boost and strengthen the green hydrogen market.  

The second part of the event opportunities for collaboration with the Mexican-Germany Energy Partnership of GIZ Mexico, the Embassy of the Netherlands and the Mexican Hydrogen Association. More than 40 people from the private and public sector interested in the promotion of the green hydrogen industry and its development in Mexico, a country with a wide potential to produce, consume and commercialize it, participated in the event.  

The Roadshow was inaugurated with words from members of the Presidium, made up of Diana León, Head of the Energy Sector of the Ministry of Economy; José María Valenzuela, General Director of Technological Development and Energy Access; Gunnar Schneider, Head of the Department of Economics and Global Affairs of the German Embassy and Wildfred Mohr, Ambassador of the Kingdom of the Netherlands, as well as welcoming words from Vicente Ugalde, Secretary General of El Colegio de México. 

The attendees expressed their commitment to the promotion of green hydrogen as a key element for decarbonization, its potential for strategic industries and the possibility of expanding its market in the national and international territory given Mexico's favorable conditions for the production of renewable energies. They also noted great interest in the presentation of the H2Global mechanism. 

Hintco is responsible of the preparation and implementation of competitive bidding processes for the purchase and sale of clean hydrogen-based products and other low-emission fuels, shaped by the H2Global mechanism. 

During the Roadshow, Timo Bollerhey and Florian Geyer from Hintco gave an interactive presentation on H2Global's second tender and answered questions from participants. H2Global is a double auction mechanism that seeks to finance the gap between the supply and demand prices of green hydrogen and derivatives, to accelerate its deployment and implementation. The development of this mechanism is part of Germany's National Hydrogen Strategy. 

In the second part of the event, the Green Hydrogen Potential study in the state of Campeche was presented by Dr. Jorge Narro of the Ministry of Environment, Biodiversity, Climate Change and Energy of Campeche (SEMABICCE), where he highlighted the potential of the state to become a large producer and exporter of green hydrogen and derivatives such as green ammonia. Subsequently, Lorena Espinosa, GIZ advisor, gave a brief overview of the green hydrogen potential studies of the states of Baja California, Coahuila, Chihuahua, Nuevo León, Guanajuato, Puebla and Tamaulipas, developed in collaboration with state governments and the Energy Partnership between Mexico and Germany, highlighting the characteristics and opportunities for each state. 

Afterwards, Israel Hurtado, president of the Mexican Hydrogen Association, presented the AMH and the opportunities identified for Mexico. Finally, Francisco Sevilla, consultant for the Embassy of the Kingdom of the Netherlands in Mexico, presented the vision of the Netherlands to promote the green hydrogen market and opportunities for collaboration.

The event was organized in collaboration by the Mexican-German Energy Partnership  the Embassy of the Kingdom of the Netherlands, the Mexican-German Chamber of Commerce and Industry (CAMEXA) and the Mexican Hydrogen Association.  

There were also networking spaces and dialogue between experts in the sector, who expressed their enthusiasm for the Hintco Roadshow, and the opportunities for collaboration presented to promote the development of green hydrogen in Mexico.