A European Commission agency has awarded about €115m ($123m) of grant funding for the roll-out of 43 new hydrogen refuelling stations (HRSs) across seven EU countries, as part of a total handout of more than €424m for zero-emission mobility.
Poland will be the biggest recipient with €77.2m awarded to two developers building a total of 21 new HRSs — a major move in a country that has no hydrogen filling stations up and running, although 13 are currently being developed.
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Grants were also made for eight new HRSs in France, five in Spain, four in Finland, three in Denmark and one each in Greece and Slovenia (see table below for details).
The funding was awarded by the European Commission’s Climate, Infrastructure and Environment Executive Agency (Cinea) using cash from the Alternative Fuels Infrastructure Facility (AFIF) of the EU’s Connecting Europe Facility (CEF), the funding programme that supports European transport infrastructure.
At the same time, Cinea awarded a further €309m for the roll-out of about 4,200 electric recharging points, while some of the H2 funding will be used to build electrolysers to supply the fuel.
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