POLAND: Alstom and fuel company PKN Orlen have signed a strategic agreement to co-operate to supply fuel cell trains and hydrogen.
Sławomir Cyza, President & Managing Director of Alstom in Poland, Ukraine & the Baltic States, said he hoped Alstom would the first company to introduce hydrogen trains to Poland. The agreement with PKN Orlen was ’another step towards the transformation of the Polish railway with the use of state-of-the-art global technologies’, he added.
PKN Orlen’s Operations director Józef Węgrecki said hydrogen is ‘the fuel of the future that will drive the energy transition in the long term’, and co-operating with Alstom would ’enable us to implement pilot hydrogen projects in rail transport and strengthen our position in Poland and the whole central European region’.
