Neoenergia's hydrogen station in Brasília: R$ 30 million in R&D and the operating data

Renaldo Santos shared a video recorded at Neoenergia's green hydrogen plant near Brasília: containerised electrolysis, high pressure cylinders and refuelling at 350 bar for buses and at 700 bar for a fuel cell Honda CR-V. The text talks about Piauí; the video, about the Federal District.

According to Cenário Energia, on 27/11/2025, the station is part of an R&D programme regulated by ANEEL, worth more than R$ 30 million, and the partnership with Honda provides for six months of testing. On 26/03/2026, Iberdrola reported that the Taguatinga station began refuelling the country's first commercial hydrogen bus.

This design defines who absorbs the risk. As research, the plant does not depend on a hydrogen sales contract, and the product is information: operating cost, station availability, vehicle performance. If the cost assumption fails, the loss stays with the R&D programme.

The video captures the tension: solar energy is clean, the infrastructure is expensive. What Brasília measures on cost per kilogram should guide the Northeast before scale. Operating data is worth more than projections.