Polish power utility Polenergia SA (WSE:PEP) said on Friday it has won a 15-year contract for the supply of green hydrogen to the municipal transport company (MPK) of Poland's southeastern city of Rzeszow.
The tender included the supply of fuel for 20 hydrogen-powered buses, which will soon be operating in the capital of the Podkarpacie. The bid of the energy group got a maximum of 100 points in the price criterion, the company noted.
The selection of the supplier came at a time when Polenergia's most advanced project, H2HUB Nowa Sarzyna, which will produce green hydrogen for MPK Rzeszow, recently obtained a building permit.
The company is completing works on the key element of the project, a 5 MW electrolyser, which will enable the production of up to 90 kg of raw material per hour. The elecrolyser was ordered from Norwegian hydrogen technology company Hystar AS, the supplier said last year.
The project also involves the construction of two hydrogen refuelling stations – one in Rzeszow and one in Nowa Sarzyna, a place 50-km away from Rzeszow.
Another hydrogen project of Polenergia, H2Silesia, in Poland's southwestern province of Upper Silesia, involves the construction of a green hydrogen plant with a capacity of some 105 MW. The project has received a notification decision from the European Commission, which makes it eligible to EUR 142.77 million (USD 156m) in funding.
(EUR 1 = USD 1.094)
