Grupo Gimeno joins the H2VLC-València Green Hydrogen Valley Program to promote its use in the transport and logistics sector in Valencia

• The H2VLC-València Green Hydrogen Valley project has the support of public entities such as the Valencia City Council and the Valencian Government, more than 30 leading Valencian companies and SMEs, five research centers and three technological spin-offs
• This will mobilize 160 million euros of investment and includes 21 projects to be developed over the next five years with the aim of decarbonization.

Today, the formal signing of the Declaration of Intent took place in the Crystal Hall of the Valencia City Hall. H2VLC-Valencia Green Hydrogen Valley Program by the City Council, the Generalitat, the Valenciaport Foundation and the Polytechnic University of Valencia. An event in which José Luis Vilar, general director of Gimeno Group.

Grupo Gimeno—already involved in transformative projects such as the Valencian Green Hydrogen Strategy and the Valencian Battery Alliance—is one of the companies that have joined the agreement to develop the project. Its main objective is to promote the deployment of the green hydrogen economy in the transport and logistics sector in the metropolitan area and the Port of Valencia. To this end, the project will mobilize €160 million in investment and will have the support of public entities, more than 30 leading companies, Valencian SMEs, five research centers, and three technology spin-offs.

H2VLC is structured around 21 projects and encompasses everything from the construction of specific infrastructure for the generation and dispensing of green hydrogen for transportation, to the acquisition of trucks, buses, vans, urban service vehicles, and industrial logistics transport vehicles powered by green hydrogen. Furthermore, the program includes the development and production of a hydrogen tram, as well as commercial technologies for the generation, consumption, and integrated management of the green hydrogen value chain, with projects to be carried out by research centers at the UPV and UV, in collaboration with various companies in the Valencian Community.

The mayor, Joan Ribó; the Minister of Territorial Policy, Public Works and Mobility, Arcadi España; the rector of the Polytechnic University of Valencia (UPV), José Esteban Capilla, and the president of the Valenciaport Foundation, Aurelio Martínez, were in charge of formalizing the declaration of intent this morning.