Lead Entity

     Petrogal has a long and diversified experience in project and design, construction, operation, maintenance, and asset management of medium and large-scale industrial units. Petrogal has extensive knowledge of biofuels, both as a producer of FAME biodiesel (exclusively from residual raw materials that it sources directly), and HVO (by co-processing vegetable oils, leveraging bioethanol, bio-oil, and biomethane R&D projects). The company is the largest producer and consumer of hydrogen in Portugal and is carrying out a decarbonization roadmap focused, amongst others, on green hydrogen production. Petrogal has the knowledge, the experience, the ecosystem of contacts and the strategic focus to lead the development of the work packages that constitute this application. Petrogal will also provide, in the industrial complex of the Sines Refinery, the space, basic

	Galp Energia S.A. Galp Energia located in Portugal is part of the Galp Energia SGPS Group. Created in 2000, it had, as of December 2021, 680 employees, 645 highly qualified. It centralizes the Group's corporate services (Engineering and Project Management, Strategy and Investor Relations, Risk Management, IT, Innovation, HSE, among others) and leads client relations, off-take contracts, and pricing. On the Agenda, Galp Energia will provide services to Petrogal, providing highly qualified human resources. Additionally, Galp Energia has extensive expertise in designing, developing, and engineering industrial processes that complement Petrogal's know-how in operating industrial assets.

Beneficiaries

	CoLab-Bioref The BIOREF– Collaborative Laboratory for Biorefineries, established in 2019, is a private, non-profit association, whose main objective is the valorisation and transfer of scientific knowledge, technologies, and innovation in the development of biorefineries. Colab-BIOREF is composed of 10 entities of the national scientific and technological system and 11 companies. It has the capacity to participate in the entire value chain of the M2N Agenda, from the sourcing of raw materials, through their pre-treatment, to the development, optimisation, concept validation, implementation and scale-up of conversion and valorisation technologies. Colab-BIOREF features highly qualified teams and has access to numerous infrastructures and equipment belonging to its members that are relevant in the context of this Agenda.
	HyLab The HyLab is a collaborative laboratory aiming to bring research activities closer to the industrial ecosystems of green hydrogen to accelerate the energy transition along the entire value chain. Activities evolve around four key pillars: hydrogen production; transport, distribution & storage; final uses of hydrogen and new partnership and new business models. HyLab will participate in the R&D project regarding the end-use of decentralized production of green ammonia, specifically aiming to better understand the characteristics of ammonia/H2 combustion and how to redesign gas turbine parts.
	Hardlevel  Hardlevel – Energias Renováveis, S.A. established in 2006, emerged in the market as a small dedicated biodiesel producer. Following already existing commercial relationships with some national factories, in 2012, Hardlevel directed its activity to manage used cooking oil (UCO). Hardlevel promotes environmentally sustainable and responsible practices, specifically regarding the collection, valorisation, and promotion of UCO incorporation in the production of advanced and environmentally sustainable biofuels. Additionally, because of ongoing internal projects aimed at seeking efficiency in the UCO collection process, the company has a team with solid expertise in the IoT area. In the Agenda, Hardlevel will contribute to the certification of the sustainability of used cooking oil in the production of renewable diesel by the HDO unit.
	HEVO SINES II (Fusion)  HEVO SINES II Unipessoal LDA (Fusion) is a subsidiary 100% owned by Fusion Fuel Portugal S.A. that will own, operate, and perform the maintenance of the Elvas decentralized green hydrogen powerplant developed in the scope of the Moving2Netrality Agenda.
	INL  The International Iberian Nanotechnology Laboratory (INL) is an intergovernmental organization legally constituted by the governments of Portugal and Spain in 2011. Based in Braga, the INL is the only organization in Europe with international legal status entirely dedicated to research in Nanotechnology and Nanoscience. The INL is a research centre focused on transforming intensive knowledge for the social and economic benefit of society and is an innovation hub in nanotechnology at national level. The INL continuously seeks to establish partnerships with companies from different industrial sectors to promote technology transfer with industry. In the context of the Agenda, INL will contribute with advanced technologies to increase the efficiency of the electrolysers of the green hydrogen production project, in close cooperation with the Spanish team and leveraging international infrastructures and resources.
	INEGI   INEGI focuses on innovation and technology transfer activities oriented to the industrial fabric. Throughout its more than 30 years of existence, it has developed partnerships with the industry in numerous R&D projects. Under the scope of the Agenda, INEGI will act on two fronts – (i) development of an advanced numerical simulation tool for the optimization of green hydrogen production plants and (ii) development of an integrated energy management tool for the operation of the same plants (green H2 production project). In fact, INEGI has been collaborating with developers of green hydrogen production plants in the definition of requirements and specifications and in the preparation of preliminary designs for green H2 power plants, including technical and economic feasibility studies and the development of algorithms for optimizing the operation of plants against several scenarios of renewable energy production profiles.
	IST The Instituto Superior Técnico (IST), founded in 1911 and located in the Lisbon metropolitan area, is a legal person under public law, integrated in the University of Lisbon, and endowed with statutory, scientific, cultural, pedagogical, administrative, financial and patrimonial autonomy. Research at Técnico is carried out in 23 centres and institutes and is framed in major areas of competence associated with challenges with a strong impact on society. These areas are strongly interdisciplinary and transversal to several domains of engineering, science, technology, and architecture. The R&D activities cover from fundamental aspects to applied projects with strong industry involvement. There are more than 2000 researchers, 800 research projects and more than 2000 publications. The mission of Instituto Superior Técnico (IST) is, among others, to create and disseminate knowledge by combining teaching and research, development and innovation (R&D) activities of excellence and according to the highest international standards, involving students, alumni, faculty, researchers and non-teaching staff in a stimulating and global environment, oriented towards solving the major challenges of this century. IST participates mainly in basic research activities in the projects, contributing with the school's knowledge of excellence, through its teachers and researchers, and contributing with the existing infrastructures and laboratory spaces. The faculty members on this project belong to the Department of Chemical Engineering of IST, having, therefore, knowledge and skills in various fields of Chemical Engineering necessary for the further development of innovative chemical processes. They also possess deep expertise in the study of complex reactions and development of new catalysts and in the modelling, simulation, optimization, and control of processes aiming at their industrialization. IST has research infrastructures complementary to those required by the project that will generate significant synergies with the planned investments.
	IST-ID The Association of the Instituto Superior Técnico for Research and Development (IST-ID) is a private non profit institution, founded in 2011 and located in Lisbon, with Instituto Superior Técnico (IST) as one of the founding associates. IST-ID is the host institution of the Research Units listed below in which IST faculty and researchers carry out their research activity. Besides its own research teams, hired directly by IST-ID within the scope of the research projects it manages, IST makes available to IST-ID, under a third-party agreement between the two institutions, faculty and researchers for the pursuit of R&D activities promoted 7 by IST-ID. IST-ID has 23 research units, 1300 researchers, more than 500 research projects and more than 2000 scientific publications. The IST-ID has as its mission and main objective the development of Science and Technology activities, the transmission of knowledge, and the promotion of the participation of national and foreign researchers, nationally and internationally, in R&D projects in its areas of intervention. IST-ID will thus participate in both basic and applied research activities in the above-mentioned projects, contributing with the knowledge and highly qualified human resources existing in its Research Units. The research units of IST-ID (Centre for Structural Chemistry and Centre for Natural Resources and Environment) have skills transversal to the area of Chemical Engineering that are necessary for the development of innovative chemical processes. In addition, IST-ID has participated in applied research projects with direct translation to higher TRLs. IST-ID has research infrastructures complementary to those required by the project that will generate synergies with the planned new infrastructures.
	LNEG  LNEG – National Energy and Geology Laboratory – is a research, demonstration, and technological development body whose mission is to promote technological innovation by directing science and technology towards the development of the economy. LNEG is the interface for integrating technology and R&D results into the business fabric. In the context of this agenda, LNEG, through the Bioenergy and Biorefineries Unit and the Resource Economics Unit, will carry out R&D project in the green hydrogen participating in the development, consolidation, and scale-up of the biorefinery and the analysis of environmental, economic and social sustainability. Additionally, it will participate in projects in human resources training in biorefineries and participate in the dissemination and promotion of results.
	University of Aveiro The University of Aveiro has extensive experience in gasification, crucial to analyse the potential of synthetic fuel production, in which it is necessary to ensure a gasification process robust enough to produce syngas with the characteristics required for the development of downstream processes. The contribution of the University will be through the development of an R&DT component dedicated to the integrated analysis of the gasification process of mixtures of residual biomass and solid waste fractions (the waste-derived fuels component) from the perspective of gas production, and its subsequent treatment/processing for the production of syngas for fuel production applications.

Associate partners

	Fusion Fuel Fusion Fuel's mission is to provide innovative green hydrogen solutions that accelerate the transformation of the global energy sector and enable the sustainable reduction of CO2 emissions. Fusion Fuel has developed a revolutionary electrolyser design – HEVO – that will allow production of hydrogen using renewable energy at highly competitive costs without any associated carbon emissions.  Fusion Fuel’s productive investment project aims at the development, construction and operation of a green hydrogen generating plant through solar resources, using the proprietary technology HEVO-SOLAR. This technology uses photovoltaic solar energy concentration cells to increase the efficiency of the electrolysis process, being later treated and stored locally to supply Fuel Cell Electric Vehicles. This hydrogen generating plant will be installed in Elvas, near Galp's hydrogen refuelling station. In previous projects, Fusion Fuel had the opportunity to demonstrate the green hydrogen production technology in the H2Évora pilot project, with 15 HEVO-SOLAR units, for hydrogen production, purification, compression, storage and consumption in a Hydrogen Fuel Cell for electricity production and consequent injection in the Public Service Electric Network.
	TAP  Founded in 1945, TAP carries millions of passengers to over 90 destinations. Its hub in Lisbon acts as a strategic platform between Europe, America, and Africa. Energy and environmental efficiency are on the Agenda of TAP's strategic priorities, and the company has been investing progressively more in a modern and more energy-efficient fleet. The new aircraft has enabled TAP to improve energy efficiency indicators (fuel consumption and CO2 emissions per passenger) by 14% between 2015 and 2019. In the context of the Agenda, the decarbonization of aviation will involve the use of SAFs, at least by the quantities established under Fit for 55, so TAP will be a natural off taker of the HDO production unit. In that regard, TAP will play a very important role in the process of assessing the quality of the SAF produced by the HVO unit. To that end, a series of tests are planned with its aircrafts.

Supporters

	Sines Port Authority (APS)  APS will act as a potential partner for Petrogal. APS is responsible for the economic exploitation, conservation, and development of the Sines port. In the context of the Agenda, it will act in downstream logistics, supporting feasibility studies and construction.
	Global Parques  The mission of AICEP Global Parques is to provide infrastructure and platforms for the location of companies to attract and retain national and foreign investment. Since the M2N Agenda is in the Sines Industrial and Logistics Zone (ZILS), Global Parques will contribute to the Agenda at various levels, namely, support in consultancy and engineering work given that a large part of the investment will be carried out in areas under the entity's management.
	Mitsui  Mitsui is one of the largest Japanese conglomerates dedicated, among other areas, to the development of the Next Generation Energy business focusing mainly on business development in the biofuels sector, including renewable diesel and sustainable aviation fuel (SAF), together with the hydrogen sector. Mitsui will bring different contributions to the Agenda – providing raw materials for the HDO plant, and potentially acting as off-taker of renewable diesel and SAF in line with its decarbonization agenda.
	Takargo  Takargo, the first private rail freight operator in Portugal, was set up in 2006 within the scope of the liberalization of the freight transport market. The company's role in the Agenda will to enhance and expedite the logistical processes of transporting the raw materials and end products resulting from the HDO production project.

Additional offtakers

In addition to the various entities actively participating in the consortium, the M2N Agenda was able to mobilise a wide range of potential Green H2 offtakers in mobility and SAF. Their endorsement is backed by letters of support that can be found in the annex of this document. We list below the names of these companies: 

Green hydrogen in mobility: Group AVIC, Group Lusiaves, Santos & Vale Sul, TN – Transportes M. Simões Nogueira and Transportes Gama 

SAF: OGMA – Indústria Aeronáutica de Portugal, SATA Air Açores and SATA Internacional-Azores Airlines.