ArcelorMittal does not wait in vain for public assistance for its green steel production plan. asturias Despite delays in the European Union, the multinational continues its roadmap and all elements of its plan to decarbonize the Gijón plant before the end of 2025 are already being worked out. In December of last year, environmental permits of hybrid electric arc furnace and now the environmental assessment of the direct iron ore reduction plant (DRI system) using green hydrogen has begun.
This is the second floor annual pre-reduced iron production capacity of 2.3 million tons (a kind of pellet) will supply both the future electric furnace in Gijón and the two owned by the compact steel mill in Sestao (Vizcaya). The key is ArcelorMittal’s 50% reduction in greenhouse gas emissions in Spain.
Juan Cofiño, Vice-President of the Principality and Minister for the Regional Administration, Environment and Climate Change, underlined yesterday that ArcelorMittal’s investment will have a significant impact on improving the environment in Asturias, which is “currently transitioning to a less intense model in carbon dioxide emissions”. Cofiño stressed that the intensity of community emissions has been reduced by 42%, from 1,400 tonnes of CO2 equivalent per million Euros of GDP in 2015 to 810 in 2019, showing a “clear downward trend”. In response to Nuria Rodríguez, deputy of Podemos, who condemned the “inaction” of the regional government, given the data from a BBVA Research study that puts Asturias at the forefront of CO2 emissions, he stated so at the Principality’s General Assembly yesterday. The unit of GDP in Spain.
Rodríguez also urged the regional government to explain in detail the “concrete” environmental impacts of Arcelor’s investment, taking into account that it will “receive 450m euros in public assistance”. As Cofiño told La Nueva España of the Prensa Ibérica group before,and help, pending approval European CommissionHe pointed out that this figure will exceed this figure and the impacts are being evaluated. At the time, he stressed that the electric furnace project had already been submitted for an environmental impact assessment and received a positive statement last October. He also pointed out that the substantive amendment of the integrated environmental permit was approved in December. “And right now, the environmental assessment and integrated environmental authorization of the direct iron ore reduction plant project has begun,” said Cofiño. said.
Blast Furnace Commissioning
The DRI plant and the electric arc furnace will replace the “A” blast furnace in Gijón, where work began yesterday to restart it after a four-month hiatus due to the contraction in the European steel products market. It will produce pig iron with 70% capacity next week.