To become the leader in green hydrogen by 2030. This is the ambition reaffirmed by Emmanuel Macron during the presentation of the France 2030 plan. With 7 billion euros in aid over ten years, the government is making it a priority to decarbonise it. industry and mobility.
But nearly 95% of the hydrogen produced in the world, from fossil fuels, is gray.
The one from renewable energies - green - generating electricity without emitting CO2, is slow to take off in France, to the chagrin of the Minister of the Economy, Bruno Le Maire.
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The very first plant in the world for green hydrogen from wind turbines, which relies on the electrolysis of water, has just been inaugurated in Bouin, Vendée.
Lhyfe has connected its electrolyser to three wind turbines located within a perimeter of 3 kilometers.
According to Maud Augeai, its development manager, “
the technologies are there, they are mature”
.
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The start-up has developed an innovative solution allowing it to smooth out variations in the wind, which overcomes the inconvenience of intermittent wind turbines.
The station, which produces 300 kg of hydrogen per day, will increase to one tonne from 2022. Enough to supply the buses and garbage trucks of a town of 50,000 inhabitants like La Roche-sur-Yon with fuel, to around one hundred kilometers from the site.
The water drawn from the port of Le Bec adjoining the factory and production close to consumers - which avoids polluting and even dangerous transport - make it a model of a local closed circuit.
The future: offshore production
Because to find a place in a nascent market, you need consumers.
“Banks only lend if you have customers.
The stake of the sector is the synchronization of infrastructures ”,
for Maud Augeai
.
"To ramp up quickly,
uses must follow
.
If the Boin site operates as planned, we will have local, perpetual and totally clean energy ”,
rejoices Luc Bouard, mayor of La Roche-sur-Yon, whose objective is to renew all of his transport fleet within fifteen years.
"If we, the community, do not do it, it will never progress."
We will have local, perpetual and totally clean energy
Luc Bouard, mayor of La Roche-sur-Yon
The future of Lhyfe rests above all on offshore production, which is much more powerful.
After its deployment with Les Chantiers de l'Atlantique off Le Croisic in 2022, the young company intends to take off with a new project in the North Sea in 2025, which should multiply its production by a hundred.
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