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FS Italiane - Snam agreement for the development and diffusion of hydrogen rail transport in Italy
Pilot projects to replace fossil fuels with hydrogen will be evaluated
October 21, 2020
FS Italiane and Snam will experiment with technological solutions related to production, transport, compression, the storage, supply and use of hydrogen for contribute to the development of sustainable mobility, including participating together in joint initiatives that are the subject of potential financing or public tendering.
"With this agreement," explained the administrator delegate of Snam, Marco Alverà - let's take a step important in promoting a hydrogen supply chain in Italy sectors crucial to decarbonisation such as transport of people and goods. Thanks to the collaboration between FS Italian and Snam, we aim to build infrastructure to convert hydrogen-powered trains currently powered by diesel in Italy and thus acquire a technological leadership to be capitalise at international level as well.'
"The agreement signed with Snam - underlined the CEO and General Manager of the FS Group Italiane, Gianfranco Battisti - confirms the importance, for FS to encourage sustainable mobility, in full compliance with the consistency with the European guidelines of the Green New Deal. Let's continue to innovate and develop safe and sustainable mobility solutions that will allow the new generations to live in a more sustainable and competitive country, according to a model that puts people at the centre more and more. Transport hydrogen railways represent in this sense a fundamental innovation that can make travel more environmentally friendly passengers and freight on the remaining railway routes not yet electrified.'
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FS Italiane and Snam will experiment with technological solutions related to production, transport, compression, the storage, supply and use of hydrogen for contribute to the development of sustainable mobility, including participating together in joint initiatives that are the subject of potential financing or public tendering.
- Via Raffaele Paolucci 17r/19r - 16129 Genoa - ITALY
