In Bulgaria, Renewable Now reported that Polish energy company Orlen has called a tender for the construction of a facility for hydrogen production from renewable energy sources in the Baltic city of Szczecin. The report highlighted that the scope of the project includes the construction of infrastructure for producing hydrogen together with an electrolyzer, powered by green energy, as well as storage facilities. The so-called hub Szczecin is to be built as part Orlen’s project “Clean Cities – hydrogen mobility in Poland (Phase III)” subsidized under the Alternative Fuels Infrastructure Facility (AFIF) of the Connecting Europe Facility (CEF), the company added. In April 2024, Orlen announced that it had received $64 million in non-repayable EU support for the project. The funding was to cover the construction of 16 hydrogen refueling stations and a green hydrogen production facility in Poland, the report added. Orlen plans to build an international network of over 100 hydrogen refueling stations spanning Poland, the Czech Republic and Slovakia to serve private, public, cargo, road and rail transport by 2030.
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