Enagás backs Galician hydrogen-design software startup digHy
What's the deal? Enagás EmprendeDealroom has a profile for this one. Try Dealroom →, the corporate venture capital arm of Spanish gas grid operator EnagásDealroom has a profile for this one. Try Dealroom →, has taken a stake in digHyDealroom has a profile for this one. Try Dealroom →, a Galician startup whose software helps developers decide where, how, and at what cost to build renewable hydrogen plants. digHy will use the funds to expand its technical team.
What's the endgame? Before investing in a renewable hydrogen plant — or facilities for derivatives like ammonia, methanol, e-methane, or SAF — a developer needs to know where to site it, how to size it, and at what cost it will produce. digHy builds the software that answers those three questions.
What does it do? Its platform combines site selection, using hour-by-hour solar and wind resource maps, with plant simulation across the full lifecycle, design optimisation, and automatic generation of technical documentation. It targets Power-to-X projects, which convert renewable electricity into molecules for sectors where direct electrification falls short, such as heavy industry, shipping, and aviation.
Why now? digHy is building a module for the operational phase that automates sustainability certification of each molecule produced. That certification determines whether output counts toward European regulatory targets — and Spain is currently defining how it will be accredited.
What they said: "Today a developer decides to invest in a hydrogen plant with an analysis that leaves out half the variables that will determine its profitability," said chief executive officer and co-founder Brais Armiño. "Doing it well required tools that didn't exist. That's what we've built." (translated from Spanish)
digHy already counts national and international companies among its clients, which use the tool as the basis for their designs. The new funds will also go toward developing the design tool and a new module for operating and certifying hydrogen plants.
The signal: The investment ties a major gas infrastructure operator to the software layer of the emerging hydrogen economy, where traceable data is increasingly a requirement for financing, grant applications, audits, and project sales.
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