A German-Spanish solar and renewable hydrogen developer has unveiled plans to build a massive 800MW green hydrogen-to-methanol plant in southern Spain producing one million tonnes per year of green methanol by 2029.

Ansasol intends to have the first phase of the MetGreenPort plant in the Port of Huelva producing 150,000 tonnes of green methanol from renewable hydrogen — and carbon dioxide sourced from nearby industries — by 2027.

But it then plans to increase the size of MetGreenPort by more than a factor of six within two years, scaling up to one million tonnes by 2029 with a total electrolysis capacity of 800MW, which would make it by far the biggest green methanol project in Europe.