The Polish oil and gas group Orlen Group has been awarded a PLN 1.7bn (€400m) grant by the Polish Government to develop two strategic hydrogen programs. The grant comes under Poland’s National Recovery Plan and it will be used to support the production of renewable hydrogen via electrolysis powered by renewable energy sources and low-emission hydrogen derived from municipal waste. The concerned programmes are the Hydrogen Eagle (to develop diversified sources of renewable and low-emission hydrogen using waste-to-hydrogen technology) and the Green H2 project led by LOTOS Green H2 (installation of a 100 MW electrolyser integrated with an energy storage system to produce green hydrogen for use in refinery operations at the Gdańsk fuel production site).
By 2035, the Orlen Group aims to expand its electrolysis-based hydrogen production portfolio to a total capacity of approximately 0.9 GW, with around 0.7 GW to be developed in Poland.