1. Municipality of Kozani (Greece) (Coordinator)

2. DEPA COMMERCIAL SA (Greece)

3. EUROPEAN DYNAMICS LUXEMBOURG SA (Luxembourg)

4. University of Western Macedonia (Greece)

5. Waste Management of Western Macedonia (DIADYMA SA) (Greece)

6. Cluster of Bioeconomy and Environment of Western Macedonia (Greece)

7. ACEA ENGINEERING LABORATORIES RESEARCH INNOVATI (Italy)

8. TIRIAKIDIS BASILEIOS ANONIMI BIOMICHANIKI EMPORIKI (Greece)

LIFE GREENH2ORN is a newcomer in the sense that it will implement the first operating Green Hydrogen Refuelling Station (HRS) in Greece and specifically in the city of Kozani, embedding sustainable/zero emission mobility in a lighthouse city selected as one of the 100 climate-neutral and smart cities by 2030 Mission launched by EC.

GREENH2ORN will demonstrate the potential for local production, distribution and use of green hydrogen in the mobility sector, namely for heavy, medium and light-duty vehicles. It focuses on the production of green hydrogen via electrolysis, and its use as a fuel for municipal fleets. (Moreover, the project aims to promote new sources of hydrogen with a circular approach by 2 feasibility studies). Also, an IT platform will be developed to centralize data for the stakeholders and to support the replication of the project in other cities, as well as several training skills packages to help the declining industries employees move to greener jobs. Finally, a socioeconomic assessment regarding the development of the demonstrator will be carried out to conduct a new green circular approach in Western Macedonia and providing policy makers with clear recommendations to efficiently use green hydrogen as an energy resource and fuel. The expected impacts arising from the project are directly related to climate mitigation and adaptation, such as, reduction in the consumption of fossil-based fuels, reduction of the equivalent carbon emissions in Kozani, demonstration of the benefits of using a centralised Green Hydrogen system to reduce the GHG emissions related to urban transport, and Replication and transfer of the results to 3 more cities/prefectures in Greece. The project length is estimated in 60 months and the consortium consists of 8 entities (CluBE as coordinator, Municipality of Kozani, DEPA, European Dynamics, UoWM, DIADYMA, ACEA and B&T) with Support of Regional and National Public Asministrations.

An integrated alternative production system for hydrogen as an alternative fuel is examined to be developed in the restored lignite mines, within DIADYMA's Central Waste Management facilities, where a Circular Economy Park is foreseen to operate under the company’s umbrella within the next 5-10 years. In particular, a feasibility study is being carried out. The project study is assessing the techno economic viability of the collection and transportation of produced sewage sludge from each Wastewater Treatment plant in the regional units of the Region of Western Macedonia and its processing in a central unit at DIADYMA's facilities. According to this feasibility study, the treatment of sewage sludge will be based on anaerobic digestion technology and the resulting biogas will be transformed into an alternative fuel (hydrogen) to be utilised at a refuelling station to power the regional fleet's zero-emission trash collection/transportation trucks.