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Polish oil and gas firm Orlen has opened its seventh hydrogen refuelling station in Gdynia, Poland, which will dispense up to 630kg of hydrogen per day at both 350 and 700 bar.
The station was developed under an EU co-financed project and will supply fuel for pilot hydrogen-powered bus operations during the summer.
It draws fuel from the company’s Włocławek and Trzebinia facilities, both of which upgrade existing hydrogen streams from chlor-alkali and refinery processes to automotive-grade quality and have been operational since 2024 and 2021, respectively.
The fuel will be transported using the firm’s fleet of 500-900kg tube trailers.
Orlen – which has six operational stations across Poland – also said it has plans for new stations in Warsaw, Kraków, Bielsko-Biała and Gorzów Wielkopolski in the coming years.
The company has a planned electrolyser capacity of 1GW by 2030, which it claims could produce more than 130,000 tonnes of green hydrogen annually, in combination with waste-to-hydrogen projects it has in development.
In April, it secured PLN 1.7bn ($459m) in Polish funding to build two green hydrogen plants with a combined 800MW of capacity.
It has also received €62m ($74m) from the EU for advancing Poland’s refuelling network as the bloc began to build toward mandates for green hydrogen in the mobility sector, requiring its use for 1.2% of transport energy by 2030.
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