Spain Grants €233.4M for Renewable Hydrogen Projects by Repsol and Dona Urraca Energy – News and Statistics

Oct 1, 2026

Spain’s Ministry for Ecological Transition and the Demographic Challenge has greenlit 233.4 million euros in support, distributed via the auction-as-a-service model, to expand renewable hydrogen output at three facilities in Castilla-La Mancha and Galicia. Backed by Repsol and Dona Urraca Energy, the trio of developments delivers a combined electrolysis capacity of 92.27 megawatts.

Repsol’s share covers two ventures. The Atlas facility in Arteixo, A Coruna, carries 50 megawatts of electrolysis capacity and has been awarded 133.394 million euros. The Puertollano Hydrogen Network in Puertollano, Ciudad Real, holds 12.27 megawatts and secured 49.791 million euros.

The remaining recipient, Quixotgen, sits in Villarrobledo, Albacete, and is being advanced by Dona Urraca Energy. It is set to feature 30 megawatts of electrolysis capacity and has drawn 50.216 million euros in support.

Though all three were picked during the European Hydrogen Bank’s third general auction, IF25, they missed out on EU funding once Brussels’ available budget ran dry.

To bankroll these efforts, the Institute for Diversification and Energy Saving, an entity operating under the Ministry, opened its second state auction-as-a-service round last May, capped at 440.5 million euros drawn from European NextGenEU resources tied to the Recovery, Transformation and Resilience Plan.

The Institute for Diversification and Energy Saving has now issued final resolutions granting the aid in each of the three cases. With budget still available, the Ministry envisions adding further ventures as beneficiaries should they formally agree to shift from the European Hydrogen Bank to Spain’s auction-as-a-service framework, as happened with the AccionaPlug venture in Zaragoza. Such projects would need to feature on the reserve list for the Innovation Fund IF25 Auction, the department noted in a statement.

Under this mechanism, incentives take the form of grants tied to the volume of hydrogen produced and certified as entirely renewable under the Renewable Energy Directive, running for up to a decade from when operations begin. Participating projects must additionally satisfy the do-no-significant-harm principle at every stage.

Spain’s inaugural auction-as-a-service round saw three separate domestic ventures, transferred from the European Hydrogen Bank’s general mechanism, secure awards: Orange-Bat by SmartEnergy in Onda, Castellon; Elysenem-Numancia in Garray, Soria; and Acciona Plug Valle H2V Navarra in Sanguesa, Navarra. Their incentives came to 220.02 million euros combined.

The team headed by Sara Aagesen stressed that these measures will let recipient firms swap fossil energy for hydrogen produced from renewable electricity, thereby erasing carbon dioxide emissions. It marks another step forward in decarbonizing Spanish industry while also bolstering the nation’s energy autonomy and curbing reliance on conventional fuels.

This latest state-level round forms part of the Executive’s push to entrench renewable hydrogen as a pivotal technology for decarbonizing industry, heavy transport, and other sectors where emissions are hardest to abate. It simultaneously advances rollout of the PERTE of Renewable Energies, Hydrogen, and Storage.

Counting these aids alongside those from initiatives like H2 Pioneros, H2 Cadena de Valor, H2 Valles, and the successive IPCEI waves, the Institute for Diversification and Energy Saving has now directed close to 3,000 million euros from the Recovery, Transformation and Resilience Plan into green hydrogen development. That technology is regarded as central to decarbonization and to building a full technological and industrial ecosystem, consistent with the Renewable Hydrogen Roadmap and the National Integrated Energy and Climate Plan.