Green hydrogen export potential opens up opportunities for professionals
According to the manager of Analysis and Market Information at the Electric Energy Trading Chamber (CCEE), Ricardo Gedra, Europe and East Asia in particular are betting on green hydrogen for the decarbonization of their economies and see Brazil as an important supplier of this commodity.
“Brazil has a great demand. So we must produce, use this product internally. Many countries are looking to develop hydrogen as a fuel, but some will be self-sufficient, such as the United States and India. However, Europe and East Asia are being indicated as regions that will need a lot of hydrogen, but will not be able to produce it with low emission in the necessary quantity. So they become international buyer markets, and Brazil then has the possibility of exporting to these markets”, he points out.
Brazil has 82% of its electricity matrix coming from renewable sources, according to the International Renewable Energy Agency (Irena). The country has stood out as one of the main generators of jobs in the renewable energy sector, second only to China in the number of jobs generated. To better understand this scenario, the National Service for Industrial Learning (Senai), in partnership with the H2Brasil project, identified which professions can already work in the green hydrogen segment.
According to the study entitled “Green hydrogen market and power to X: demand for professional training”, the professionals able to work in the green hydrogen chain in Brazil are engineers from the most diverse specialties (mechanical, chemical, environmental and production), professionals linked to regulation, both the economic and the legal side, in addition to technical-level professionals from already consolidated profiles (such as electrotechnics, mechanics, chemistry and others) who receive specific training in H2V.
The superintendent of professional and higher education at Senai, Felipe Morgado, points out that it is necessary to seek qualification of professionals to implement green hydrogen plants in Brazil. “Brazil has a potential market for the production of green hydrogen. Both the domestic and export markets and Senai, always linked to meeting the demand of Brazilian industry, seeks to anticipate. And this anticipation makes it possible for us to be able to offer courses and train qualified professionals to take advantage of the opportunity of green hydrogen in Brazil”, he explains.
In the second half of this year, the network’s first postgraduate course in Green Hydrogen and PtX will be launched by Senai Cimatec, in Bahia, together with a center of excellence located in Rio Grande do Norte and five more regional laboratories (Santa Catarina, Paraná , São Paulo, Bahia and Ceará) aimed at professional and higher education in this new sector.
“Senai is currently investing in several states in Brazil to implement a green hydrogen structure, both research and innovation structure and people training structure. So much so that we have open enrollment in a postgraduate course in green hydrogen, where we aim to present to engineers, mainly what are the technologies and what they should know to operate in this new market”, completes Morgado.
Courses in the area of green hydrogen will have registrations opened by the Futuro.Digital they are:
- Installer of Electrolysis Systems for Green Hydrogen Production Plants;
- Maintainer of Electrolysis Systems for Green Hydrogen Production Plants;
- Gas Transportation Logistics Operator;
- Technical Specialist in Operation of Green Hydrogen Production Plants;
- Specialist in Green Hydrogen Systems (Postgraduate).
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Brazil is starting to pay attention to the signs that hydrogen can not only guide the energy transition, but also create economic opportunities. In a signal to the market, the government approved a resolution by the National Council for Energy Policy (CNPE) establishing the National Hydrogen Program and creating the Public Policy Management Committee.
Last Wednesday (12), the Special Commission for the Debate of Public Policies on Green Hydrogen was installed in the Senate. For two years, the group will debate and evaluate public policies on clean energy generation technology. For the senator and committee rapporteur, Otto Alencar (PSD-BA), Brazil needs to be seen as a world center for the production of green hydrogen.
“Now the most important moment for Brazil is to show the world that we will have modern technology for the generation of clean energy, with the possibility of not only supplying the country’s needs, but above all in the very near future, it is exporting green hydrogen ”, he points out.
Gedra believes that the energy transition from fossil fuels in the global energy matrix to green hydrogen in different forms (ammonia, kerosene, among others) will be positive for Brazil both for the economy and for the context of climate change.
“A new industry is formed, which means more investment, more jobs. So this is a relevant aspect for industrial development. This electricity generation has to be a clean generation, and where I have more sun and more wind, they are often in places that do not have as much economic development, so I end up taking money to regions. These are some aspects that manage to make it possible to have a relevant economic development for the country in terms of education, employment and income. And all this, collaborating with the environmental aspect”, he explains.
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