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title: Green Hydrogen Production
type: technology
url: "https://www.envisioning.com/research/grid/brazil__green-hydrogen-production"
hub: grid
summary: "Brazil is building what would be the world's largest green hydrogen plants in the northeast — 600,000+ tons/year from 3.4GW of wind and solar — leveraging its cheap renewable electricity"
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# Green Hydrogen Production

Brazil is building what would be the world's largest green hydrogen plants in the northeast — 600,000+ tons/year from 3.4GW of wind and solar — leveraging its cheap renewable electricity
- Technology Readiness Level: 4/9
- Impact: 3/5
- Investment: 4/5
Brazil's northeast coast has some of the world's best combined wind and solar resources, with capacity factors exceeding 50% for wind in Ceará and Rio Grande do Norte. Multiple projects are planned to use this cheap renewable electricity to split water into hydrogen via electrolysis.

Enegix plans a 3.4GW plant producing 600,000+ tons of green hydrogen per year near Fortaleza. Casa dos Ventos, partnered with TotalEnergies, is developing an even larger facility at Pecém targeting 900,000 tons annually. Brazil's government forecast R$40 billion in green hydrogen investment for 2025.

The strategic advantage is cost: green hydrogen requires cheap renewable electricity and water. Brazil has both in abundance. If production scales as planned, Brazil could become the Saudi Arabia of green hydrogen — exporting clean fuel to Europe, Japan, and Korea via the northeast's deepwater ports.

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Source: Envisioning — Technology Research Institute (https://www.envisioning.com/research/grid/brazil__green-hydrogen-production)