The European Commission has given the green light to 100% of the funds requested by Enagás subsidiary Scale Gas for the deployment of a network of six renewable hydrogen refuelling stations in Spain, each with a total capacity of 1,000 kg per day, which will form part of the Atlantic and Mediterranean corridors of the Trans-European Transport Network (TEN-T).
These funds, which come from the Connecting Europe Facility (CEF) of the European Climate, Infrastructure and Environment Executive Agency (CINEA), amount to more than 8 million euros (8,031,900 euros), which represents the total amount requested to undertake the project with a joint investment of more than 26.7 million euros (26,773,000 euros).
The network of refuelling stations of this project, under the name ECOhynet, will supply hydrogen produced from renewable sources, at a pressure of 350 and 700 bars, for light and heavy vehicles. In September 2024, Scale Gas submitted its application for this CEF funding call to develop this project to build refuelling stations.
In this same call, CINEA has also awarded nearly €422 million to 39 projects that will deploy alternative fuel supply infrastructure along the Trans-European Transport Network, within the 2024-2025 Connecting Europe Facility for Alternative Fuels Infrastructure Facility in Transport (CEF Transport AFIF).
This funding for Scale Gas is in addition to the €75.8 million for Enagás, announced by CINEA on 30 January, which will co-finance 50% of the studies for the Projects of Common Interest (PCI) of the first axes of the Spanish Hydrogen Backbone Network and the H2Med corridor, formed by a connection between Celorico da Beira in Portugal and Zamora in Spain (CelZa) and a maritime connection between Barcelona and Marseille (BarMar).
