Hydrogen and New Technologies

Chile has a great advantage to face climate change, having enormous renewable resources, solar and wind energy in abundance, as well as key mineral resources to face the decarbonization of industrial processes in general: copper and lithium.

Our challenge as a country is to efficiently insert ourselves in the global value chains that will be developed to face the decarbonization of economies: we will be able to export fuels and clean energy by implementing green hydrogen technologies.

Based on these renewable energies, it is necessary to move towards sustainable mining, which reduces the carbon footprint of copper and lithium to zero, reducing dependence on fossil fuels throughout the production matrix. This represents an enormous opportunity to sophisticate national production, to develop new export industries, for example: green hydrogen and derivatives.

The solid trajectory of the Fraunhofer Institutes Network in Germany and the rest of the world offers Chile a great advantage to advance in the implementation of these developments and innovations, and in this challenge Fraunhofer Chile offers its capabilities to act as a bridge in the transition to a more sustainable productive matrix.

Green Hydrogen is presented as an opportunity to achieve carbon neutrality goals in complex sectors and industries to decarbonize, such as Mining and Transportation, where electrification and renewable energies used directly are not enough. This is where the 'energy vector' property of H₂ appears, as it allows us to transport or use renewable solar or wind energy, in other uses such as transportation, chemical industry, energy storage, industrial heat generation, among others.

In order to implement new R&D developments in the industry, our Business Development team has a wide portfolio of projects and contacts to provide advice and guidance in prospecting possibilities for your company. 

We have the experience of a multidisciplinary team at national level and the support of the network of Fraunhofer Institutes in Germany, which allows us to support and guarantee the reliability and quality in the design and execution of the projects we implement.