Lhyfe inaugurates the world's leading global hydrogen production site in Vendée

By Franck Fischbach published Le Courrier Vendéen See my news

À partir d’aujourd’hui, on peut rouler avec de l’hydrogène et du vent dans les Pays de la Loire ! Ce jeudi 30 septembre, c’est à Bouin qu’a été inaugurée la toute première usine du monde à fabriquer de l’hydrogène vert à partir d’énergie éolienne.Or an investment of 10 million euros for this single Vendée unit.

Gray hydrogen against green hydrogen

Cars that roll hydrogen starts to enter mentalities, and habits.But as Matthieu Guesné, founding president of lhyfe reminds us, "it is a question of so -called gray hydrogen, or fossil hydrogen".

Son entreprise, Lhyfe, a fait le pari, il y a quelques années, de créer de l’hydrogène vert.In other words, to create hydrogen by electrolysis, thanks to solar, hydraulic or wind energy.Objective: to considerably reduce the carbon footprint.

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C’est au Port-du-Bec, à Bouin en Vendée, qu’a été inauguré ce jeudi le tout premier site mondial de production d’hydrogène vert grâce à l’énergie éolienne, imaginé par Lhyfe.Energy drawn from the wind farm, active for more than 15 years a few hundred meters from the factory.The lhyfe production unit uses around a third of the energy produced by the wind farm to supply machines that will transform sea water into a compressed hydrogen at 350 bars, and "pure 99.9999%.»»

The Vendée site produces 300 kg per day today.Its production will be pushed in the coming months to 1 ton per day. « C’est la quantité nécessaire pour alimenter une ville comme La Roche-sur-Yon, et ses 25 bus et 25 camions à hydrogène»», ajoute Matthieu Guesné.

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Hydrogen of Lhyfe will feed 4 Western Service Stations, including that of La Roche-sur-Yon, in operations in the coming days.About fifty heavy vehicles, bus, household waste dumpsters will be able to drive to renewable hydrogen in the departments of Loire-Atlantique, Sarthe, Vendée first.Then in other French departments.In particular via the VHYGO project, which will allow communities to pool their orders.

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Lyfe has among its customers communities like Le Mans, Lorient, Saint-Nazaire, La Roche-sur-Yon, Brest, La Turballe ... Sometimes for mobility (bus, garbage collection trucks, transpalets, etc.), sometimes for'industrial.

The LHYFE team is currently made up of around sixty employees, and the French start-up plans to recruit 80 people soon.

To support this strong growth, Lhyfe achieves the second fundraising in its history, a table of 50 million euros in series A, and welcomes Swen Capital Partners and the Bank of Territories alongside its historic investors.

[VIDEO] Relive the direct inauguration

How much does it cost, hydrogen?

For the time being, the first to equip themselves are the communities and certain companies, anxious to reduce their carbon footprint.But tomorrow, individuals will also be able to ride hydrogen. Et le président de Lhyfe en est convaincu : « le pétrole est mort !»»

Some hydrogen vehicles are already on sale, but the difficulty is to find on the one hand a dealer which offers such a car, on the other hand to find a pump.

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