ORLEN secures EU grant for hydrogen projects
Published on: Aug 15, 2024
Investment includes nearly €9 million to support the international HySPARK project led by the Polish company in collaboration with other 17 global partners.
The international HySPARK project, led by ORLEN in collaboration with a consortium of 17 global partners, has become the first in Poland to receive funding from the EU Clean Hydrogen Partnership programme.
Approximately €9 million will be allocated to the production and testing of hydrogen-powered vehicles for Chopin Airport and Warsaw’s public transportation system. H2 will be supplied from the company’s HUB in Włocławek and a refueling station at Chopin Airport is set to be established in 2026.
Hydrogen-powered buses will be provided by ARTHUR BUS, hydrogen-powered trucks by Quantron, and ground handling equipment by the Italian company ATENA. Vehicles will be used by the municipal bus company Miejskie Zakłady Autobusowe of Warsaw, ORLEN, and LS Airport Services.
“Several local governments in Poland are already using buses powered by hydrogen from ORLEN, and in Poznań, we have deployed our first publicly accessible hydrogen refueling station for passenger cars. A next step will be to test ground handling vehicles at Chopin Airport and public transport buses in Warsaw,” said Grzegorz Jóźwiak, Head of the Hydrogen Technology and Synthetic Fuels Office at ORLEN.
HySPARK (Hydrogen Solutions for euroPean Airports & Regional Kinetics) involves extensive collaboration among 17 partners from five countries: Poland, Germany, Italy, Ireland, and the United Kingdom.
This initiative is part of the Mazovian Hydrogen Valley Cluster, which already includes 48 partners representing research institutes, universities, as well as public and private enterprises. The goal of the Mazovian Hydrogen Valley is to create a regional hydrogen ecosystem that will connect hydrogen producers with technology providers.
