During the event, the strategic importance of green hydrogen and lithium in building a more sustainable, competitive and forward-looking economy was highlighted.
On Tuesday, July 22 at the Municipal Theater of Viña del Mar, Corfo, sponsor of Hyvolution Chile 2025, presented its Participatory Public Account 2025, which highlighted the transformation process of the Corporation to respond to the great challenges to face the effects of climate change and the search for socially and environmentally sustainable solutions that improve the performance of the most relevant productive activities of our economy. All of this, with special emphasis on gender equity, fair and participatory territorial development.
The event was attended by the mayor of Viña del Mar, Macarena Ripamonti; the presidential delegate for the Valparaíso Region, Yanino Riquelme; Congressman Diego Ibáñez; the director of the Navy’s Center for Technological Innovation (CITA), Captain Francisco Mackay; representatives of civil society organizations, COSOC, Corfo committees, unions, academia and the Apta, Hubtec and Knowhub Hubs, among others.
Corfo’s executive vice-president, José Miguel Benavente, emphasized the work with the territories and sustainability, consolidating them as fundamental axes of the process: “Together with the Ministry of Economy, Development and Tourism, we have developed the Sustainable Development Program (DPS) with the development of 23 public goods linked to green hydrogen, water and climate change issues and with the financing of the operation of the Green Hydrogen Committee and the recently created Lithium and Salt Flats Committee.”
“During 2024, the DPS program had $102 billion, of which 50% was executed by ministries and agencies coordinated by the Ministry of Economy and the other 50% directly by Corfo,” continued Benavente.
Continuing with the drive for regional development, Corfo’s executive vice-president highlighted the announcement of the creation of StartupLabs, a new and innovative public policy that seeks to position Chile as a reference in scientific-technological entrepreneurship in Latin America.
Green hydrogen and lithium
During the event, the strategic importance of green hydrogen and lithium in the construction of a more sustainable, competitive and forward-looking economy was highlighted. Both sectors represent a unique opportunity for Chile to consolidate its global leadership in the energy transition, promoting productive linkages, technological development and high-value jobs.
“In terms of industrial policy, the development and promotion of green hydrogen (H2V) plays an important role. Corfo supported the implementation of the H2V Strategy and Action Plan with initiatives such as technological programs that promote the use of hydrogen and the development of manufacturing in its value chain, the H2V Technology Center in Magallanes, the H2V Industrial Rings in Biobío and support for the manufacture and/or assembly of electrolyzers and their components in Chile: two projects to be installed in Biobío and one in Metropolitana, with funding of US$25.6 million,” added Benavente.
In addition, this year an agreement was signed to transfer resources to the Institute of Clean Technologies (ITL), located in the Antofagasta Region, which aims to promote research, development and transfer of clean technologies (energy, mining, lithium and water), which will receive a contribution of US$137 million from Corfo, of a project that contemplates a total investment of more than US$242 million.