The strategy aims to establish a comprehensive framework for developing Paraguay’s green hydrogen economy—not just production, but the entire value chain—with a focus on sustainable development from environmental, social, and economic perspectives. It seeks to:
- Develop a regulatory framework: Create laws and policies tailored to Paraguay for the safe, efficient, and sustainable production, storage, transport, and use of hydrogen. This includes public awareness and education.
- Leverage natural and geographic advantages: Use Paraguay's renewable energy potential, especially hydro resources, to become a key regional producer and exporter of green hydrogen and its derivatives.
- Attract investment: Build a stable and robust regulatory environment that encourages high-quality investments aligned with national development and sustainability goals.
- Ensure sustainable industry growth: Plan for hydrogen production and distribution in a way that maximizes national benefits and promotes responsible use of resources.
- Boost industrial development: Promote new industries, such as green fertilizer production, and help existing ones decarbonize—driving economic growth and creating quality jobs.
- Strengthen strategic autonomy: Develop a resilient, self-sufficient energy system that enhances Paraguay’s industrial and technological capabilities while reducing reliance on fossil fuels.
Embedded on these goals, the strategy lays down six fundamental pillars, structured into 19 lines of action and 55 specific measures. The pillars under which the measures and lines of action are grouped cover key areas such as (i) green hydrogen production, (ii) the use of water for green hydrogen production, (iii) end uses and applications of green hydrogen, (iv) renewable electricity generation, access to the electricity grid, (v) infrastructure, logistics, safety, and (vi) a set of cross-cutting elements around regulation, standardisation and harmonisation, capacities, dissemination, awareness-raising and governance.
