MOL Group has partnered with Plug Power to construct one of Europe’s largest green hydrogen production facilities at MOL’s Danube Refinery in Százhalombatta, Hungary.

Green hydrogen will reduce the Danube Refinery’s carbon footprint and enable emission-free mobility in the long run.

MOL’s €22 million facility, which will use a 10-megawatt (MW) electrolysis unit from Plug Power, will be able to produce approximately 1,600 tons of clean, carbon-neutral, green hydrogen annually, removing up to 25,000 tons of CO2 by displacing the current natural gas-based production process. Because this process accounts for one-sixth of MOL Group’s carbon dioxide emissions, this investment supports MOL’s carbon neutrality goals and will contribute to the region’s energy independence.

MOL will use green hydrogen in its Danube Refinery during fuel production of its own hydrogen system once it is operational in 2023. It will be incorporated into the molecules of MOL fuels, lowering the carbon outputs from both the manufacturing process and the final product.