Three companies – Energia Euro Park, Euro-Eko, Enervigo – have joined Łaszczyński Brothers Central Hydrogen Cluster. The aim is to produce green and stable energy based primarily on hydrogen.
– ‘This is the next industrial revolution,’ says Szczepan Ruman, the president of Świętokrzyskie Mines of Mineral Resources. This company initiated the formation of Świętokrzyskie Hydrogen Cluster a year ago. – ‘We referred to the heritage of the Łaszczyński brothers, who used the electrolysis method in the municipality of Chęciny more than a century ago, which is crucial for the production of green hydrogen. They, at that time, produced 100 kilograms of pure copper per day by electrolise,’ he mentions.
The goal of Central Hydrogen Cluster is to produce zero-carbon energy and green hydrogen.
– ‘Now, during the energy crisis, we know how vital it is to have access to energy at predictable, stable prices and to zero-carbon energy in the future. Green hydrogen is the fuel of the future, it will certainly power heavy transportation, trucks, mining machinery. It will eliminate carbon emissions, eliminate carbon dioxide from these processes. This fuel will also power public transportation in cities. Hydrogen buses will not pollute, and will clean the air in cities. We are looking at this future very optimistically,’ explains Szczepan Ruman, the president of Świętokrzyskie Mines of Mineral Resources.
Together, members of Central Hydrogen Cluster pledge to develop zero-emission energy sources capable of producing 4 terawatt-hours of energy per year and 250 megawatts of hydrogen electrolyzers by 2030, which is expected to result in the production of 50,000 tons of clean hydrogen to power heavy equipment, trucks and public transportation in cities. This is supposed to yield a reduction in carbon dioxide emissions of 400,000 tons per year.
– ‘This idea is still alive, it is still developing. That’s why we have transformed this Cluster into Central Hydrogen Cluster. We think that companies from the former Central Industrial District can fit into this idea,’ says Szczepan Ruman. – ‘This means creating another value chain, both the supply of components for hydrogen production and the production of hydrogen itself, hydrogen buses, the whole electromobility. In this value chain, Polish companies can once again take their place, better than before,’ he specifies.
The cluster already brings together dozens of companies and institutions. At present, it has been joined by companies from Mielec. These are Energia Euro Park, which trades electricity in the Mielec economic zone, Euro-Eko, which is a producer of alternative fuel from waste, and Enervigo, which specializes in the area of electricity, heat and cooling production.
– ‘This fits in with our vision for the company’s operations, which supports a green transformation. Moving away from fossil fuels is the basis of our business, we have been doing this for years. We are introducing coal substitution,’ comments Radoslaw Swół, the president of Euro-Eko.
– ‘Hydrogen is the natural next step ahead of us. Today we are writing a new history, building our future. Hydrogen is the future as a zero-emission fuel,’ assesses Swół.
– ‘We want to be an important part of Central Hydrogen Cluster. We want to make a technological contribution to the development of the cluster, we are talking about an intelligent energy management system, a technology developed at our company. The cluster itself is a very big opportunity for us to develop our business,’ declares Krzysztof Kapinos, the vice president of Enervigo.
– ‘This technology intelligently manages generation sources on the basis of predictive algorithms, by means of artificial intelligence. This makes the energy management system more optimal for end customers,’ Kapinos explains. Enervigo’s proposals offer customers the possibility of significant savings on energy costs.
The intimate ceremony of signing a declaration to join Łaszczyński Brothers Central Hydrogen Cluster was hosted by Energia Euro-Park. The event took place on September 21, 2022.
– ‘We will bring the experience of a distribution network operator. This is a major contribution, since the Cluster needs someone to account and support the entities in it. We will bring expertise in electricity sales, the long experience of our employees can work today for the needs of the entire Central Hydrogen Cluster,’ says Tomasz Tłusty, the president of Energia Euro-Park.
One of the results of the Hydrogen Cluster’s activities may be a new offer to companies in the Mielec economic zone for the supply of electricity.
– ‘Already today clean energy enters our network, our enterprises are supplied with clean energy. We are thinking of shortening the supply chain significantly, so that energy for Mielec businesses comes directly from the Cluster. As a result, we will be able to offer better prices in part because the cost of generation will be a fixed cost, not based on exchange prices, related to the quotations of the commodity energy exchange,’ Tomasz Fatty reports. He points out that this is a perspective of several years, and now these activities have been initiated. – ‘Someday we have to start this process. If we don’t, we will never have our own energy sources,’he stresses out.
– ‘I am very pleased that the dynamically developing Mielec companies have joined our cluster. These are three companies involved in the energy sector in the broadest sense, and they can, together with us, build the value chain of the hydrogen economy, join the hydrogen economy, electromobility, zero-emission energy sources,’ adds Szczepan Ruman of Świętokrzyskie Mines of Mineral Resources.
Łaszczyński Brothers Świętokrzyskie Hydrogen Cluster was established on November 25, 2021. Meanwhile, on July 5, 2022, it was transformed into Central Hydrogen Cluster.
