{"id":917,"date":"2025-06-10T14:54:42","date_gmt":"2025-06-10T12:54:42","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.eicenter.eus\/projects\/hard-to-zero\/"},"modified":"2025-08-08T14:54:10","modified_gmt":"2025-08-08T12:54:10","slug":"hard-to-zero","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/www.eicenter.eus\/en\/projects\/hard-to-zero\/","title":{"rendered":"Hard to Zero"},"content":{"rendered":"
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  • Decarbonise the hard-to-abate<\/strong> industry sectors to significantly reduce industrial CO2 emissions in the Basque Country.<\/strong><\/li>\r\n\t\t\t\t\t
  • Maintain competitiveness in the industrial centres of the Basque Country and hard-to-abate sectors.<\/strong> Early decarbonisation is a key to the competitiveness of these sectors and requires the availability of renewable hydrogen, CO2 capture and use of oxygen, all in optimal market conditions.<\/li> \r\n\t\t\t\t<\/ul>\r\n\t\t\t<\/div>\r\n\t\t\t\r\n\t\t<\/div>\r\n\r\n\t\t
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    Strategy<\/h3>\r\n\t\t<\/div>\r\n\t\t
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    The strategy to combine decarbonisation with keeping competitive in this type of sector relies on: combinar la descarbonizaci\u00f3n con el mantenimiento de la competitividad en este tipo de sectores pasa por:<\/p>\r\n\t\t\t\t

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    • The ability to produce renewable or low-carbon hydrogen on a large scale,<\/strong> to be cost-competitive.<\/li>\r\n\t\t\t\t\t
    • Deliver limited transport infrastructure<\/strong> that connects supply to demand<\/li>\r\n\t\t\t\t\t
    • Make use of synergies that require using oxygen and CO2 to optimise processes or generate new products.<\/strong><\/li>\r\n\t\t\t\t<\/ul>\r\n\t\t\t<\/div> \r\n\t\t<\/div>\r\n\t<\/div>\r\n\r\n\t\r\n\r\n\t
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      Lines of action<\/h3>\r\n\t\t<\/div>\r\n\t\t
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      Production and use of renewable oxygen and hydrogen<\/p>\r\n\t\t\t<\/div>\r\n\t\t\t

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      Use of recycled water <\/p>\r\n\t\t\t<\/div>\r\n\t\t\t

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      Design of infrastructure for distributing renewable gases and CO2 that interconnects generation with use and potential storage<\/p>\r\n\t\t\t<\/div>\r\n\t\t\t

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      Use of CO2 captured in the production of e-fuels and e-methanol<\/p>\r\n\t\t\t<\/div>\r\n\t\t\t

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      Design of infrastructure that allows for the export of renewable gases<\/p>\r\n\t\t\t<\/div>\r\n\t\t<\/div>\r\n\t<\/div>\r\n\r\n\t

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      The role of the EIC Foundation is to provide management support to this strategic decarbonisation initiative through outlining the management and support needed for a framework project that covers the various activities.<\/p>\r\n\t\t<\/div>\r\n\t<\/div>\r\n\r\n\t

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      Participating companies<\/h3>\r\n\t\t<\/div>\r\n\t\t \r\n\t\t
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      Project objective Decarbonise the hard-to-abate industry sectors to significantly reduce industrial CO2 emissions in the Basque Country. Maintain competitiveness in the industrial centres of the Basque Country and hard-to-abate sectors. Early decarbonisation is a key to the competitiveness of these sectors and requires the availability of renewable hydrogen, CO2 capture and use of oxygen, all […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"parent":912,"menu_order":1,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"templates\/page-with-container.php","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-917","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.eicenter.eus\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/917","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.eicenter.eus\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.eicenter.eus\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.eicenter.eus\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.eicenter.eus\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=917"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.eicenter.eus\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/917\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":968,"href":"https:\/\/www.eicenter.eus\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/917\/revisions\/968"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.eicenter.eus\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/912"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.eicenter.eus\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=917"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}