PARIS, FRANCE: Lhyfe (EURONEXT : LHYFE), a world pioneer for the manufacturing of inexperienced renewable hydrogen, and Nantes Saint Nazaire Port, France’s fourth largest seaport, have reached a partnership settlement to develop the offshore renewable sector and thereby ramp up energy transition on the Loire Estuary.
Hydrogen is ready to attract on the strong momentum pushed by the nationwide technique for the event of carbon-free hydrogen in France, and as will offshore wind power, this energy supply will be called upon to play an more and more important role inside the French and European energy mix.
At the finish of September inside the Saint Nazaire dock basins, Lhyfe launched its Sealhyfe project to ship the world’s first offshore renewable hydrogen manufacturing prototype, which will have a capability of 1 MW and can be connected to a floating wind turbine.
Lhyfe already operates a renewable hydrogen manufacturing facility using water electrolysis, and is planning to arrange similar onshore facilities all through Europe. The Company is contemplating the idea of developing and working offshore renewable hydrogen manufacturing platforms on existing fixed structures or on fixed-position or floating foundations, and is ramping up its analysis and development investments for the event of offshore renewable hydrogen manufacturing as shut as possible to offshore energy sources. By 2030-2035, the offshore sector could represent additional put in capability of the order of three GW for Lhyfe.
Nantes Saint Nazaire Port is strongly dedicated on many fronts to energy transition in Greater Western France. The Port Authority is focussing on the energy sources of tomorrow and is studying the possible deployment scenarios for the hydrogen sector inside its port ecosystem, with the ambition of making Nantes Saint Nazaire the primary main port facility for hydrogen on France’s Atlantic Seaboard.
Combining Expertise
Supported by their converging visions of the future, Nantes Saint Nazaire Port and Lhyfe have naturally chosen to mix their efforts and areas of experience so as to identify, to perceive and to evaluate the conditions for the institution of a provide chain associated to offshore hydrogen production.
This collaboration is meant to identify the port areas and facilities able to accommodating R&D prototypes and being utilized to check out innovative solutions. The partnership additionally focusses on the identification of the industrial necessities concerned inside the development of the equipment for use to produce offshore hydrogen on a mass scale, and on the port infrastructures necessary for the production, launching and integration of these future items of equipment.
Lastly, the 2 events will deliberate collectively on how best to bring ashore the renewable hydrogen mass-produced at sea, so as to outline the requisite industrial and logistical necessities for the reception and injection of the gas into the land-based network.
Matthieu Guesné, Chief Executive Officer and founding father of Lhyfe: “The development of offshore hydrogen manufacturing is the subsequent main problem awaiting us. Following the integration and inauguration of our Sealhyfe platform on the Saint Nazaire port facility, we’re going to pursue our collaboration with this port facility, which possesses a nice deal of associated expertise, to speed up the event of options that will make it possible to decarbonize mobility and industry on a massive scale, in all coastal regions. “
Olivier Trétout, Chair of the Management Board of Nantes Saint Nazaire Port: “Over the course of a number of years now, energy transition has become a actuality on the Port of Nantes Saint Nazaire. We are confronted by local weather and energy challenges that require us to hurry up our actions and to quickly identify new solutions. Green hydrogen is a sector of the future in which we have nice faith, as do many of the Regional Community’s industrial and institutional players. The Port of Nantes Saint Nazaire has the credentials to be a main port facility for the lodging of that sector of activity. The partnership agreed with Lhyfe constitutes an important first stage inside the method of figuring out the necessities for the large-scale deployment of renewable hydrogen production.”