Lhyfe has announced that its pilot offshore hydrogen production platform, Sealhyfe, will return to the harbour of Saint-Nazaire (western France) between this evening and tomorrow morning.

Inaugurated in September 2022, the platform was commissioned alongside the quay and then towed offshore last May. After several months at sea, where it was able to generate green hydrogen in a difficult environment and in real-life conditions, it is now time to bring it back for an initial assessment. The Sealhyfe platform has stored millions of pieces of data. It will now be analysed, and the first lessons learnt should be disclosed as early as January 2024.

These results will be benefital to all Lhyfe’s current and future sites, on land and at sea. They will be particularly useful as part of Lhyfe’s stage 2 development of offshore hydrogen production: the HOPE project. This European project is being carried out by a consortium of 9 partners and will make it possible to produce up to 4 tonnes/day of green hydrogen at sea from 2026.

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Article written by Laurent Meillaud and translated by Logan King