Fusion Fuel has been awarded €3.6 million in grant financing through Component 5 (‘C-5’) of Portugal’s Recovery and Resilience Plan to create a 1 Megawatt decentralized green hydrogen production facility co-located with a hydrogen refueling station in Elvas, Portugal.
Previous C-5 funding for Fusion Fuel’s “Sines Green Hydrogen Valley Alliance” consortium totaled €36 million.
The grant is a portion of a larger funding package given to the Moving2Neutrality Alliance, a group of 13 partners led by Petrogal, a Galp Group subsidiary, that is working to decarbonize commercial and industrial mobility by creating hubs for the production of sustainable fuels in Sines and other key Portuguese cities.
The baseline for examining the idea of decentralized generation of green hydrogen for mobility applications in Portugal and internationally will be Fusion Fuel’s project, which will be co-developed with Galp. The facility will be built at Elvas, which is strategically positioned on one of the main freight lines between Portugal and Spain.
With the related balance of plant, the project aims to produce up to 400 kg of green hydrogen per day using electrolysis with a 1 MW capacity, achieving the purity and compression needed for transportation uses. Moreover, the facility will have a built-in hydrogen refueling station for both light- and heavy-duty commercial vehicles. The project’s scope, which includes producing green hydrogen and compressing it to a pressure of 40 bar, is projected to cost Fusion Fuel about €7.2 million in capital.
