The Port of Barcelona will have a hydrogen refueling station to produce and supply green hydrogen to trucks, buses, and port machinery, the port announced.
The equipment will be located in the ZAL Port and will have a mobile unit to service the terminal and port logistics equipment.
The future hydrogen refueling station consolidates the Port of Barcelona’s commitment to green hydrogen after several pilot projects have demonstrated its viability and potential to decarbonize port activity.
The Port of Barcelona’s Board of Directors approved a public tender to select the company that will build the first hydrogen refueling station for trucks, buses, and land-based equipment at the Port’s terminals and logistics areas. This new facility will be installed on a 7,000-square-meter plot of the Port’s ZAL Port, strategically located at the intersection of the Port, the ZAL Prat, the ZAL Barcelona, the Zona Franca, and the logistics areas of El Prat de Llobregat.
The new hydrogen refueling station will be a pioneer in the Spanish port sector because it will not only supply hydrogen to land vehicles and port machinery but will also produce it using electrolyzers powered by 100% renewable energy, ensuring that the fuel supplied is emission-neutral and qualifies as green hydrogen.
The tender, aligned with the Port of Barcelona’s environmental sustainability strategy and its objectives of promoting clean fuel implementation projects, includes a 40-year concession term with the possibility of extension. Production capacity, the technical design, and the commercial strategy have also been prioritized, with the aim of ensuring the quality of the service and its future viability.
In this regard, the tender stipulates that the new equipment must have a minimum production capacity of 2 MW, with capacity increases beyond this figure being positively valued. It also welcomes the hydrogen refueling station’s availability of a mobile unit to provide service at terminals where there is hydrogen-powered machinery, but which, due to its characteristics, cannot be deployed outside, thus expanding its service radius throughout the port area.
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Full press release (translated by Google)https://www.portdebarcelona.cat/es/comunicacion/noticias
