ADNOC, announced that it has opened “H2GO”, the region’s first high-speed green hydrogen pilot refuelling station, to test a fleet of zero-emission hydrogen-powered vehicles.
The station, which is located on land provided by Masdar City and operated by ADNOC Distribution, will create green hydrogen from water using an electrolyser powered by clean grid electricity.
The hydrogen supplied at the pilot station will be certified as “green” from solar sources by the International REC Standard, an internationally recognised certification organisation. The pilot will be used to gather data to understand the long-term viability of hydrogen vehicles in the UAE.
The pilot is supported by the Integrated Transport Centre in Abu Dhabi, and the high-speed refueller was provided by Linde, a leading global industrial gases and engineering company. Throughout the pilot, the fleet of hydrogen vehicles are being provided by Toyota, Al Futtaim Motors and BMW, and will be tested by taxi companies, including Tawasul.
Hydrogen is an energy carrier that creates no carbon dioxide (CO2) when used. As a result, no carbon is released into the atmosphere from production to end-use. The station creates hydrogen from water using an electrolyser powered by clean-grid electricity. The H2GO station is ADNOC Distribution’s latest mobility development following the launch of E2GO to build and operate electric vehicle infrastructure in Abu Dhabi and the wider UAE.
ADNOC has allocated an initial $15 billion (AED55 billion) to advance lower-carbon solutions and develop decarbonisation technologies to reduce its carbon intensity by 25% by 2030 and enable its Net Zero by 2045 ambition.
