Hyguane: green hydrogen for Kourou
The Guiana Space Centre (CSG), in partnership with the European Space Agency (ESA) and the 'Centre National d'Etudes Scientifiques' (CNES), is behind the Hyguane project, which aims to produce 130…
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The Guiana Space Centre (CSG), in partnership with the European Space Agency (ESA) and the 'Centre National d'Etudes Scientifiques' (CNES), is behind the Hyguane project, which aims to produce 130…
While projects are multiplying in Europe, hydrogen pipelines are also developing in China. According to China Hydrogen Buletin, 1,000 km (around 620 miles) of H2 pipelines are under construction in…
GRTGaz to build a 20 km H2 pipeline in Dunkirk GRTGaz, who launched a call for tenders last September to assess the need and economic interest for an H2 pipeline…
Hydrogen is one of the common thread of the 2023 edition of France's largest industrial exhibition. It will be the subject of a conference and a round table on Thursday.…
The imaging and IT group is to launch a factory to produce Zirfon membranes for alkaline electrolysis. The production unit will be installed in existing buildings at the company's site in…
Atawey will provide a mobile hydrogen station to Hyliko Hyliko, which provides H2 trucks for leasing as well as a solution for the production and distribution of renewable hydrogen, has…
Since November, natives have been blocking this power plant project, which aims to produce electricity. They say they have not been consulted and want the site to be built elsewhere.…
As a high-level conference is being held on this topic in Brussels today, it is an opportunity to recall what this concept of hydrogen valleys is. These valleys are regional…
Everfuel to produce and distribute green hydrogen Everfuel, new partner of the Hy24 fund, is a global hydrogen player in Northern Europe, producing green hydrogen from wind turbines and distributing…
Everfuel and Hy24 sign a joint venture The Danish operator, Everfuel and the investment fund Hy24 are to create a joint venture with the aim to eventually produce 1 GW…
Johnson Matthey will deliver membranes to Plug Johnson Matthey and Plug have signed a deal to secure supply and meet the growing demand for fuel cells and electrolysers. It is…
The US Department of Energy has released $7.4 billion to help developing charging corridors for electric charging stations and hydrogen refuelling stations for heavy-duty mobility. In total, seven projects are benefiting…
The publication of detailed rules to define what constitutes renewable hydrogen in the EU, with the adoption of two delegated acts required under the Renewable Energy Directive, has been interpreted…
Nuclear and hydrogen : is it truly a major step forward ? ‘France Hydrogène’ reacts to the Delegated Acts adopted at the end of last week and which concern renewable fuels of…
This American producer uses gas from the decomposition of green and organic waste to transform it into synthetic fuels or hydrogen. A method that has been rather successful in the…
On Friday, the European Commission published a Delegated Act that authorises, under certain conditions, the use of low-carbon electricity to produce hydrogen labelled as "renewable." This is a victory for…
In response to the H2Med project, which involves France, Spain and Portugal (and possibly Germany), Italy has signed an agreement with Algeria. A country with great potential and which also…
Hydrogen is on TotalEnergies’ agenda When presenting its financial results (a €20.5 billion profit in 2022, about $21.9 billion), the group highlighted its investments in hydrogen and renewable energy. In…
On the sidelines of the presentation of its results, the group indicated that the partnership with the Indian conglomerate Adani* to create a green hydrogen giant has been suspended while…
A new offshore wind project in the Netherlands The French manufacturer will supply a 2.5 MW electrolyser to CrossWind - a joint venture between Shell, Eneco, Siemens Gamesa and Van…
HySiLabs has successfully closed a €13 million financing (about $14 million). Through this funding, the company will be able to further develop its unique process of enclosing hydrogen molecules in…
Gen-Hy and ‘Eiffage Énergie Systèmes’ have joined forces to create Gen-Hy Cube, a company dedicated to the construction of an electrolysers plant in Montbéliard (Eastern France). These electrolysers will produce…
As part of the latest closing of ADEME’s territorial ecosystem call for projects, the HyTouraine project was selected along with 13 other winners. This is a win recognition for the…
While new winners have been announced at Hyvolution (see previous article here LINK) and a new call for projects is taking shape, it is time to take stock of ADEME’s actions.…
The EDF subsidiary has signed an agreement with ABB to optimise hydrogen production costs. The Optimax system has already been installed at the Auxerre filling station and other deployments will…
On the occasion of the Hyvolution exhibition, Elyse Energy and Teréga solutions have announced they are signing a partnership to promote the development of low-carbon hydrogen and synthetic fuels in…
Our interview of Vasyl Doronin (Ukrainian Hydrogen Association) To be completely honest, it all happened a little by chance. While walking the aisles, Hydrogen Today spotted a small booth hosting the Ukrainian…
Through a joint venture, the two groups will develop a refuelling infrastructure for hydrogen trucks. An optimistic sign for the industry. Although these trucks are just coming into the market…
During the Hyvolution exhibition, France Hydrogène unveiled a study carried out with the PFA and IRT SystemX as part of the National Hydrogen Council (CNR). These partners have carried out…
Hyvolution: our interview of Olivier Dhez (HRS) During Hyvolution, Olivier Dhez, Executive Vice-President of HRS - a French hydrogen refuelling stations manufacturer - talked to us about their high-capacity stations. …
The Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes region is very well represented at Hyvolution with about 30 exhibitors (10%) coming from the French Region. In this interview, Thierry Kovacs, the Region Vice-President in charge of environment,…
At the opening of the show, France Hydrogen took stoke of the main figures about hydrogen in France. They are progressing. "The place to be", "the largest exhibition in Europe":…
Plugpower places an order of hydrogen stations with HRS HRS, a French designer and manufacturer of hydrogen refueling stations, has announced an order for stations whose purpose will be to…
The French group had a good year in 2022, with a 40% increase in sales and a 50% rise in orders. Last year, McPhy’s turnover was 16 million, a 22%…
The French group Technip Energies has been awarded a front-end engineering design contract for the world's largest low-carbon hydrogen project for ExxonMobil in Baytown, Texas. Technip, which is well positioned…
Bpifrance will join Qair’s capital. This investment in Qair, an independent producer of renewable energy, will accelerate its development in France and abroad. The group's portfolio, which is present in…
Germany is further securing its hydrogen supplies with a cooperation with Australia that will lead to imports in 2030. After Canada, Egypt and other countries, Germany is making progress with…
A Franco-German alliance for filling up trucks The German start-up Cryomotive and the French industrial group Fives will jointly develop a cryogenic pump for filling up transport trucks and other…
Atawey, which has completed a €25 million round of financing from French investors (about $27 million), will be able to finance its development. It also announced the opening of its…
Through its Vinci Concessions branch, the global leader in mobility infrastructure has decided to invest €15 million (about $16.3 million) in Hype, the operator with the largest fleet of hydrogen-powered…
At the Franco-German Council of Ministers on Sunday, Emmanuel Macron and Olaf Scholz discussed their common vision on hydrogen. In a joint declaration, which you can read on the French…
HRS, a refuelling station manufacturer, has announced that it has signed a framework agreement with pHYnix, an independent European producer of green hydrogen. The agreement includes an initial order for…
At the end of December, Verso Energy, a renewable energy and green hydrogen producer, raised €50 million (about $54 million). Through this fundraising, the company will be able to accelerate…
GRTGaz calls for a hydrogen pipeline in the south of France France's main gas transmission system operator, GRTGaz has launched a call for interest in order to gain a better…
The country has decided to spend 174.9 billion rupees (about 2.14 billion USD) on a plan to develop green hydrogen and become an exporter. India, one of the world's biggest…
As an alternative to steam methane reforming (SMR) with carbon capture, autothermal reforming (ATR) is one of the latest technologies used by Air Liquide in Japan. It is characterized by…
The Europe of pipes is setting up. After the H2Med project between Portugal, France and Spain, a pipeline project has been announced between Norway and Germany. Today, the giants Equinor…
Vopak and Hydrogenious LOHC Technologies have decided to create a joint-venture, called LOHC Logistix. Its purpose will be to liquefy hydrogen to facilitate storage and transport. The Dutch oil and…
The founder of HRS received the Legion of Honour. The founder and CEO of HRS is part of the latest class of the Legion of Honour. On its LinkedIn account, the ‘Grande…
The German gas giant is to collaborate with the local energy company Masdar* to produce green hydrogen in the United Arab Emirates. With Dubai set to host COP28 from 30 November…
An alliance between Engie and HRS to boost mobility Through an alliance, the energy company, ENGIE and the station manufacturer, HRS will jointly develop 15 projects between now and 2026…
It is a partnership between a newcomer in hydrogen, Raven SR, and a gas player with expertise in CO2 liquefaction and storage, Chart. Their association will make the production of H2 from…
Air Liquide welcomes the decision of the Dutch government to support two of its large-scale renewable hydrogen projects, ELYgator and CurtHyl, under the IPCEI HyUse. These 200 MW capacity electrolysers…
Lhyfe, the French green hydrogen producer, will collaborate with the German industrial group and automotive supplier in Bavaria. The agreement provides for the construction and operation by Lhyfe of a…
The foundation stone for a green hydrogen production plant has been laid in the French city of Signes by the Hy2Gen group. The latter is already present in Germany, Norway…
H2 MED Project: the partners are revealed. Following the announcement made by Emmanuel Macron and Spain and Portugal heads of governments, energy operators are mobilising to make the project a…
France Hydrogène adapts its governance The reference association of the H2 sector unveils today its new organisation. As they met in General Assembly on December 7th, the members of France…
Today, France, Spain and Portugal have unveiled their plans for a pipeline to transport green hydrogen from the Iberian Peninsula to France and the rest of Europe. The pipeline, called…
On the eve of its general assembly on December 7 in Paris, France Hydrogène published the second part of its study ‘Trajectoire Hydrogène 2030’ (Trajectory hydrogen 2030). This confirms the…
The EDF subsidiary has announced its first financial closing. For the Danjoutin station, near Belfort, it welcomes partners around the Hy4 project company. The subject was discussed at the Horizons…
Under the name "Lhyfe Heroes", the company based in Nantes is launching a platform to bring together all the players in the supply chain and thus accelerate projects. This is…
The federation of municipalities ‘Touraine Vallée de l'Indre’ (Centre Region) has announced the start of construction works on the hydrogen refuelling station it will be offering near the A10 motorway,…
A boost for the biomass-based H2 sector: the start-up Qairos Energies, based in Loué (Sarthe, western France), is to be awarded a prize for its project to convert hemp into…
This is the calculation made by France Hydrogène following an enquiry, as revealed by the Journal du Dimanche. While by the end of the year, France should have 58 stations…
At the end of September, the company inaugurated its Sealhyfe prototype capable of producing renewable hydrogen at sea and it has announced a collaboration with the large port of Saint-Nazaire.…
The Spanish company has just inaugurated its first palladium alloy membrane plant in Gascony (Southwestern France). This technology will make it possible to obtain hydrogen at lower cost from ammonia,…
In partnership with the “Caisse des Dépôts et Consignations (CDC)” (the French Deposit and Consignments fund), Europe is allocating more than €37 million (around $38 million) to clean mobility projects…
In a joint open letter, 25 parliamentarians from the Occitania region called out to President Macron. They are concerned about the gas pipeline project between Barcelona and Marseille and suggest…
Through its airport subsidiary, the public works group has announced new partnerships in both Japan and Chile. Vinci Airports has signed a new memorandum of understanding (MOU) with Airbus to…
FLEX'hy: the hydrogen dynamic ecosystem from GCK The company specialising in retrofit has just inaugurated a new industrial site. It will take advantage of this new location to get into…
Shipping giant Maersk and the Spanish government have unveiled a gigantic €10 billion project (about $10 billion) to develop this hydrogen-based fuel, considered strategic to decarbonize maritime transport. This pioneering…
The group will produce new generation electrolysers from 2024 onwards in the framework of a gigafactory selected under the IPCEI. This green light comes just a few days before the…
The Northern Green Crane project will be one of the first projects to import industrial-scale green hydrogen from Sweden to the Netherlands and Germany by 2026. This project is in…
The company is preparing its transition to an industrial scale with a site that gathers the headquarters, R&D and a refuelling stations production plant. This new plant of more than…
GRTgaz and Fluxys Belgium are pleased with the success of their call for tenders. No less than 17 companies have expressed their interest in connecting their production or consumption site to the…
The Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes French region and the Compagnie Nationale du Rhône (CNR) have announced the construction of a one-kilometer hydrogen pipeline between the Pierre-Bénite dam and the Saint-Fons chemical valley by…
In a press release, the government announced that President Macron, his Spanish counterpart Pedro Sanchez and Portuguese Prime Minister António Costa met in Brussels last Thursday and decided to interlink…
While the high price of electricity makes electrolysis and therefore the price of hydrogen more expensive, other players are trying to draw attention to alternative and less expensive processes. Jean…
While paying a visit to Plastic Omnium in Oise, the Prime Minister spoke about the H2 plan. Elisabeth Borne visited Plastic Omnium's Alphatech site in Compiègne (Oise) on Wednesday 28th September. Ministers Bruno…
Symbio will invest €1 billion in France The joint venture between Faurecia and Michelin will invest a total of €1 billion in France over 7 years as part of its…
Atawey celebrates its 10 year anniversary The Savoy-based company Atawey, which celebrated this anniversary in its historic premises in Le Bourget-du-Lac, took the opportunity to give its vision of the…
Despite the efforts made by the States in the field of renewable energies, and in particular in hydrogen, clean energy is needed to achieve carbon neutrality. The year 2022 would…
Lhyfe partners with Gaussin The manufacturer based in Franche-Comté, which already has links with Symbio for fuel cells and HRS for refuelling stations, has a new partner at its side.…
Elyse Energy, a European specialist in low-carbon fuels, partners with IFP Energies nouvelles, AVRIL and BioNext with the aim to jointly produce sustainable and synthetic aviation fuels (SAF). The BioTJet…
McPhy to launch its gigafactory in Belfort The long-awaited electrolysers plant has finally been approved by Europe under the framework of the IPCEI Hy2Tech and is to be installed in…
The French company, which recently inaugurated a production platform using offshore windmills in Saint-Nazaire, will develop a 200 MW plant in Delfzijl, in the province of Groningen. For Lhyfe, this…
Lhyfe has placed an order with Plug Power for ten PEM-type electrolyser systems of 5 megawatts each. This is the largest order of this kind ever made by a French…
As part of a partnership with Hynova, the yacht manufacturer, Atawey installed a refilling station directly in the port of La Ciotat. You may have heard of The New Era,…
On Wednesday 21st of September, the European Parliament adopted an amendment that allows gas and even coal to be included in the electricity used to make renewable hydrogen. The text naturally…
According to Euractiv, Lisbon joins Spain in lobbying France to build a pipeline across the Pyrenees that could eventually carry hydrogen. We have already mentioned the MidCat gas pipeline project…
The company has inaugurated the world's first offshore renewable hydrogen production pilot site in Saint-Nazaire (western France). "Until now, no one has ever produced hydrogen at sea," the company says.…
As a clear sign of its interest in hydrogen, the Brussels Commission has announced a new IPCEI worth more than €5 billion (about $5 billion). This new project is called…
According to the Euractiv* website, the French Minister for Energy, Agnès Pannier-Runacher, wrote to the European Commissioner for Energy, Kadri Simson, asking her to include nuclear power in the energy…
ITM Power to change CEO The British electrolyser manufacturer ITM Power has announced that Dr. Graham Cooley has decided to step down as CEO of the company. He has been…
Dunkirk in search of a hydrogen pipeline GRTgaz is releasing a call for bids in order to assess the requirements and uphold the economic interest for a hydrogen transporting pipeline…
An H2 offer from Stellantis and ENGIE Just like Hyvia, the group Stellantis is putting forward a combined offer of vehicles with a hydrogen station for company fleets. However, they…
The French ecological transition agency (ADEME) is preparing a new round of calls for projects, one of the essential criteria being the price. In an article published by the ‘Gazette…
Linde increases green hydrogen production in the US The fact that the German company Linde will raise its green hydrogen production capacity to meet the growing demand is undoubtedly an…
During the Hyvolution exhibition, the Pays de la Loire region launched the brand "Planète Hydrogène" (Hydrogen Planet). This generic name has been registered in order to show the full potential…
French, German and Luxembourg industrialists have decided to form a European Economic Interest Grouping (EEIG) to create the "Greater Hydrogen Region". The signatories are Creos Deutschland, Encevo, GazelEnergie, GRTgaz, H2V,…