While the media revolt was pleased with the possible frustrated opening of Corrugados in Azpeitia, the hydrogen economy, which has raised the greatest hopes for the economic revitalization of the Basque Autonomous Community, has been hit hard: The Iberlyzer project will not be built in Bizkaia by the energy multinational Ibredrola, its promoter, and by the engineering Ingeteam, but in Guadalajara (Spain). This is one of the projects that the Basque Government presented in the Euskadi Next package to the European Union’s prolific economic aid to deal with the crisis caused by covid-19.

Two months ago, on 21 March, he pointed out as one of his star projects the large companies that govern the CAV in the field of energy, grouped in the Hydrogen Cluster. The Basque Energy Cluster Hydrogas Sector Forum collected everyone who is someone in the CAPV, the entire economic elite: Petronor, Iberdrola, Sener, Nortegas, EVE, Aclima, Siemens, UPV, Mondragon Unibertsitatea.. You can still read it in the event headlines: "The recent session focussed on advances in several leading Basque initiatives in the hytraere, including the Basque Hydrogsion Corridor, headed by PETRONOR, IBERDROLA’s IBERLYZER initiative and hydrogstrategy, and the BENORTH2 project currentunderway at the Amorebieta pilot-egas. In other words, in the hydrogen field, the initials of the CAPV had advances, including Iberdrola’s Iberlyzer initiative and the hydrogen strategy. The latter has not been dragged by the wind, but by the Castilla Mancha community, which has taken it 60 days later.

A month ago, as EITB said today, the Basque Government minister, Arantxa Tapia, acknowledged that the Basque institutions were doing everything possible for the plant to be built in the Basque Country. To do so, adequate land and tools for participation in the association were sought, among which are "tax tools of the Provincial Council of Bizkaia". In fact, Iberdrola's president, Ignacio Sánchez Galán, showed his willingness to settle in the Left Margin, but "without excluding other territories". It seems that all these facilities put in place by the Basque Government and Bizkaia have been a little small? As for Iberdrola.

As we know, what Iberdrola wants to do with Iberlyzer will do in Guadalajara: electrolizers. Electrolysers are the key to making green hydrogen competitive at a competitive price and the European Union is particularly interested in its development. For the construction of this plant, it was planned to invest EUR 50 million in Bizkaia and create 350 new jobs in it. Iberdrola, for its part, has sought not only an alternative location, but also an alternative partner and the factory to be built in Guadalajara will have as main partner Cummins, USA. The global energy multinational Cummins, with 58,000 workers worldwide, moved its business in 2020 for about $20 billion