Offshore staff
NANTES, France — Lhyfe and Source Galileo have agreed to jointly develop commercial-scale green and renewable hydrogen production facilities in the UK and Ireland.
They plan to offer the produced hydrogen to industrial and transport companies, helping them to decarbonize their operations.
The planned facilities would be similar to Lhyfe’s recently inaugurated plant in Occitanie, southern France. In Ireland, they will seek to identifying potential consumers and assess factors such as grid availability, power supply, land accessibility and planning requirements.
Initially, the focus on using electricity from onshore renewable sources, but over the longer term, could extend to offshore wind energy in the UK and Ireland to help address electricity grid constraints.
Lhyfe produced green hydrogen through water electrolysis, its systems powered by renewable electricity. Its first plant at Pays de La Loire, western France, has been operating since the second half of 2021, with two more sites inaugurated last month in Occitanie and Brittany.
A further five sites are under construction or undergoing extension elsewhere in Europe. Lhyfe launched its UK operation in 2022 in Newcastle and Sheffield, northern England.
The company is targeting a green hydrogen production capacity of 200 MW by year-end 2026 and 3 GW by the end of 2030.
Source Galileo has about 10 GW of offshore wind and hydrogen projects under development in the UK, Ireland and Norway, and it also is developing onshore battery storage and solar projects.
The UK government’s own target for low-carbon hydrogen production target is 10 GW by 2030, with at least half of this coming from green hydrogen. Ireland’s National Hydrogen Strategy, published last July 2023, calls for 2 GW of hydrogen production from offshore wind farms in the country by 2030.
01.23.2024
