The SHYNE (Spanish Hydrogen Network) project is the largest multisectoral consortium in Spain, created to promote the decarbonization of the economy through renewable hydrogen. It will deploy projects in ten autonomous communities and it have a total investment of €3.23 billion euros that will serve to develop more competitive technologies and evolve both the Spanish industry and its infrastructure towards decarbonization, generating more than 13,000 jobs.
For CTAG, this initiative reaffirms its development, research and technological innovation strategy around new environmentally sustainable propulsion systems, while consolidating the collaborative approach of the Centre with a new alliance with world renowned organisations.
Repsol leads the consortium, while six other companies, each a benchmark in its sector – Alsa, Bosch, Celsa, Enagás, Scania, and Talgo – act as promoters of the initiative. The remaining 26 partners, including CTAG, are associations, public and private companies, technology centres, and universities which will assume the role of project collaborators.
Among the objectives of the consortium, the ambition to reach an installed capacity of 500 MW in 2025 and 2 GW in 2030 stands out, which represents half of the target set in the Hydrogen Roadmap published by the Spanish Government. In addition, projects will be promoted throughout the value chain, including installing renewable generation and stimulating the different industrial uses of hydrogen through a strong sectoral integration. The use of hydrogen in all transportation segments will also be promoted through the production of synthetic fuels and the creation of an infrastructure with at least 12 hydrogen filling stations by 2025.
SHYNE aspires to be a benchmark project in Europe, structuring new opportunities throughout the value chain, through collaboration between companies that pursue a common goal, decarbonizing their activity, and join efforts and investments to achieve it.
The C-MobILE project comes to an end after four years with an online event in which the situation and future perspectives of cooperative mobility services for European cities will be analysed.
The CELESTE project (dynamiC spEed Limits compliancE for optimiSed Traffic managEment), is an initiative in which partners with different backgrounds and from all across Europe, will collaborate to answer open questions with regard to automatic speed reduction and compliance in our cities: What is the appropriate speed limit for a specific city section? Is the speed limit for a city section at times too high or too low depending on changing conditions? How to modify and ensure compliance of a speed limit in real time? How to assist traffic managers to achieve such compliance?
In 2019, Gamelsa and CTAG together with Arantia and Gainsa, launched CLAuDiiA, the strategic R&D project whose general objective is the implementation of the Industry 4.0 model to make production processes more flexible, gain competitiveness and offer customized products and solutions, adjusted to the needs of customers.
The EIT Urban Mobility has recently launched the startup Accelerator programme batch #2 looking for early-stage startups with revolutionary solutions to change urban travel patterns or to solve other pressing problems in the mobility area.