Lhyfe and Elyse Power’s e-methanol mission in France gaining ground

The conclusions of the initial reports on the e-methanol mission Green Waft will most certainly be communicated in 2025, in step with the French hydrogen producer Lhyfe and compatriot e-gas firm Elyse Power. The mission is for the time being below construction and is topic to the granting of working licences, constructing permits and monetary funding decisions.

The companies, which joined forces to invent the production of e-methanol from inexperienced renewable hydrogen on the Montoir-de-Bretagne dwelling throughout the port of Nantes Saint-Nazaire in France in July 2024, claimed the mission is of “important” significance for the location and for the total maritime transport sector, which is looking out for to develop decarbonization.

The partners said that decarbonizing maritime transport is a key danger for reaching the twin goal of carbon neutrality and an exit from fossil fuels, mentioning that e-methanol produced from renewable inexperienced hydrogen is one among the keys to decarbonizing this sector.

To remind, Nantes Saint-Nazaire Port selected Lhyfe to impartial up an industrial production and distribution operation for inexperienced hydrogen in leisurely 2023. At the time, Lhyfe presented its plans to manufacture an industrial unit with a renewable inexperienced hydrogen production skill of up to 85 tonnes per day (installed electrolysis skill of 210 MW), in Montoir-de-Bretagne, to the north of the Multivrac terminal, by 2028. Nearby, Elyse Power positioned itself to carry out renewable gas in the industrial port zone.

A synergy between these two parties ended in the signing of an spirited settlement to ascertain out the feasibility of producing e-methanol from Lhyfe’s inexperienced hydrogen, in narrate to decarbonize maritime transport. The the leisure of the production would be ancient to decarbonize mobility and industry in the neighborhood. Elyse plans to carry out 150,000 tonnes of e-methanol a 300 and sixty five days on the location.

Matthieu Guesné, Founder and CEO of Lhyfe, commented: “This mission, positioned on the heart of the Nantes Saint-Nazaire industrial port ecosystem, is a beacon of hope. There might be an urgent deserve to pass in direction of a more frugal person society, nevertheless furthermore to assign in location cleaner and safer solutions to decarbonise the uses that we can no longer effect away with. E-methanol produced from inexperienced hydrogen is one among these solutions, which is in particular luxuriate in minded to the transport industry… Every person is conscious of Saint-Nazaire successfully, having built our pioneering Sealhyfe platform there. Alongside with Elyse, and with the toughen of the impartial, we are proud to be leading this crucial mission for the future.”

Pascal Penicaud, CEO of Elyse Power, acknowledged: “Climate change is the danger of the century. Scientists preserve reminding us of this, describe after describe. The lag is both easy and plucky. To limit its effects and scale, we deserve to decarbonise all industries, and we deserve to develop it now… We are overjoyed to be joining forces with Lhyfe to combat this battle together, on the heart of the Nantes Saint-Nazaire industrial port location, with the Green Waft mission. The e-methanol produced by the mission will provide a local, low-carbon resolution for the transport industry, whereas considerably reducing emissions of atmospheric pollution from ships and contributing to the impartial’s industrial vitality.”

Jean-Rémy Villageois, Chairman of the Administration Board of Nantes Saint-Nazaire Port, said: “…As a nationwide energy hub, the Port of Nantes Saint-Nazaire, supported by the impartial’s economic and institutional avid gamers, has taken motion on assorted fronts to velocity up its transition and turn real into a low-carbon energy hub by 2050. The Green Waft mission, led by Lhyfe and Elyse, adds a fresh brick to the decarbonisation of the Loire Estuaire industrial location, and furthermore echoes the GO CO2 mission to grab and recycle the unavoidable and biogenic CO2 emitted by industrial companies in Will pay de la Loire and western France. Green Waft is completely in step with the decarbonisation targets impartial at European and nationwide level, as are the total actions belonging to the roadmap we agree with collectively impartial ourselves to originate a success of this transition.”

To conceal, Green Waft is section of the Loire Estuaire Décarbonation initiative, supported by France 2030 by process of the Low Carbon Industrial Zone or ZIBaC call for projects, and led by ADELE, which contains Saint-Nazaire Agglomération, the Estuaire & Sillon association of municipalities, the Will pay de la Loire Location, Nantes Saint-Nazaire Port and the Association des Industriels Loire Estuaire (AILE).