The Polish experiments with hydrogen started off very well. Hydrogen advocates spent years telling governments what needed to be done: create real demand. Public subsidies helped put hydrogen buses into Polish cities, refueling infrastructure received support, and renewable-hydrogen projects were offered public money as well.
Subsidized buses would create hydrogen demand, demand would support refueling stations, stations would justify local hydrogen production. With enough production and infrastructure in place, a domestic low-carbon hydrogen industry could begin to emerge. In principle, it sounded logical and that it would work.
Polenergia, Poland’s largest private energy group started off solidly. By October 2024, they had building permits, and eight electrolyzer stacks had completed factory acceptance testing. In hydrogen- terms, that was at an advanced state.
Fast forward one year and Polenergia decided in January 2025 that it could not conclude the agreement. The company cited legal issues associated with the tender and the risk that it would not be able to deliver hydrogen on schedule. This was not simply a declaration that hydrogen cost too much, Polenergia’s subsequent corporate strategy called for a gradual withdrawal from hydrogen transportation.
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PSR Analysis: There are a lot of views as to why this key project has failed, ranging from the creation of a hydrogen system that would always fail because it wasn’t running 24/7, to creating a demand through subsidy. Either way, it’s another failed hydrogen experiment, which seems to be the way of things for hydrogen at the moment.PSR
