About Us
Our Purpose
Energie Salentine is a joint-stock company (Società per Azioni) promoting the Important Project of Common European Interest IT 02 (IPCEI IT 02). This project is part of the Hy2Infra wave, which was notified by the Ministry of Enterprises and Made in Italy (MIMIT) in December 2023 and authorized by the European Commission on February 15, 2024. Finally, on June 16, 2025, MIMIT issued the Ministerial Decree granting the incentives in favor of Energie Salentine.
The IPCEI classified as IT02 is part of the National Integrated Energy and Climate Plan (PNIEC), submitted by the Italian Government to the European Commission in July 2024.
The objective of Energie Salentine is to implement the IPCEI IT02 Project, which involves the design, construction, and management of two green hydrogen production, distribution, and storage infrastructures located in the Puglia region, specifically in the municipalities of Taranto and Brindisi. The green hydrogen will be produced through the water electrolysis process using electrolyzers with a total capacity of 452MW, powered by energy from renewable sources. The completion of the IT02 project will thus provide a decisive contribution to the decarbonization process of industrial activities within the region.
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The Project
Two infrastructures, dedicated to the decarbonization process, will be built in the Municipality of Taranto (with a capacity of 400 MW) and in the Municipality of Brindisi (with a capacity of 52 MW).
They will serve as Italy’s two main hubs for hydrogen infrastructure, contributing to “the European Union’s broader objective of becoming the first climate-neutral continent by 2050”.
A strong partnership with a common goal
It is backed by leading financial and industrial partners (Azimut, EN.IT, Green Value, Luce), who are synergistic and complementary, bringing specialized, distinct, and independent entrepreneurial expertise; each of which shapes, structures, and supports the company’s core business.
Corporate Ethics
Energie Salentine has adopted a corporate Code of Ethics and an Organization and Management Model
pursuant to Legislative Decree no. 231 of June 8, 2001.
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Context
February 15th 2024 The European Commission, through Decision C(2024) 1053 final, approved a third Important Project of Common European Interest (IPCEI) in support of hydrogen infrastructure.
The project, named “IPCEI Hy2Infra” (commonly referred to as Hydrogen 3), was jointly developed and notified by seven Member States (France, Germany, Italy, the Netherlands, Poland, Portugal, and Slovakia), and complements the first and second IPCEIs on the hydrogen value chain.
The first two initiatives focus respectively on:
Hydrogen 1 (Hy2Tech, approved on July 15, 2022) – aimed at developing hydrogen technologies for end users;
Hydrogen 2 (Hy2Use, approved on September 21, 2022) – focused on hydrogen applications in the industrial sector.
IPCEI Hy2Infra
This project aims to strengthen the supply of renewable hydrogen, thereby reducing dependence on natural gas and contributing to the achievement of the European Green Deal and the REPowerEU plan objectives, of which:
the development of 3.2 GW of electrolyzers for the production of renewable hydrogen; the construction of approximately 2,700 km of new and repurposed hydrogen transmission and distribution pipelines; the development of hydrogen storage facilities with a capacity of at least 370 GWh; the construction of handling terminals and related port infrastructure for liquid organic hydrogen carriers (LOHC) to manage 6,000 tons of hydrogen per year.
