HYDROGEN IN FRANCE

ADVANCING TOWARDS A NET ZERO FUTURE

Le Bourget (Ile de France)
Le Havre (Normandy) Paris-Le Bourget airport is home to the 4th public hydrogen
Lhyfe receives from the French government a refuelling station in the Paris region, provided by HYSETCO
grant of up to €149m for large-scale | March 10
production of green and renewable hydrogen Belfort (Bourgogne-Franche-Comté)
near Le Havre in France | March 18
Inauguration of the Grand Belfort Water
Le Mans (Pays de la Loire) Services' new hydrogen power generator
24 Hours of Le Mans 2024 : H2
prototypes on track Saturday Vougy (Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes)
June 15 | March 27 Arv'Hy: a complete ecosystem
dedicated to hydrogen mobility
| March 14
Nantes (Pays de la Loire)
Chambéry (Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes)
AdvancedH2Valley Project receives
a €8.9 million grant from the EU to Inocel and HYmpulsion sail a
foster the Western France hydrogen hydrogen-powered boat | March 29
transition | March 6

Sète (Occitanie)
The hydromer dredger has arrived
at the port of Sète | March 5 Manosque (Provence-Alpes-Côte d’Azur)
Launch of the FrHyGe project
| March 1

MARCH
2024 Monthly News & Highlights
Non exhaustive list of news (projects, contracts, investment, partnership, etc.) in France published between the first and the last day of the month
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Also HYWELL station completes the first refueling of our Renault Master Van H2-TECH | March 4

in the news Hyliko will be taking part in the forthcoming roll-out of the IMAGHyNE (Auvergne Rhone
Alpes Region) and AdvancedH2Valley (Pays de la Loire Region) projects | March 6

Hype and EIFHYTEC launch their partnership by integrating the first new-generation
EIFHYTEC ultra-high-pressure compressor into the Hype green hydrogen distribution
Partnerships network | March 13

Mergers and acquisition Inocel boost its growth with €64M financing | March 22

Standard, certification
R&D projects PONANT and FARWIND Energy Partner to Develop Green Hydrogen Refueling Solutions
| March 26
Other news
Seven and HRS announce partnership to install up to 5 HRS40 stations of 1 Tonne/DAY
| March 28

MARCH Approval of Safra’s H2-PACK® coach retrofit kit | March 28

2024 Monthly News & Highlights

Non exhaustive list of news (projects, contracts, investment, partnership, etc.) in France published between the first and the last day of the month
 “Our HYWELL station completes the first
refueling of our Renault Master Van H2-TECH.
A groundbreaking station developed in
partnership between HYVIA and ATAWEY.
Compact yet powerful, HYWELL is designed to
kickstart hydrogen ecosystems while
delivering optimal performance, refueling in
just 5 to 10 minutes at 700 bar.”
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2024 Source: Hyvia, LinkedIn Post, March 4
 “The Hydromer dredger made its entry into the
port of Sète on March 5th after leaving the
Piriou shipyards in Concarneau a week earlier.
It will be commissioned in March to maintain
the depths of the three regional ports of
Occitanie: Sète-Frontignan, Port-La-Nouvelle,
and Grau du Roi. This unique vessel (…) will
operate partly on hydrogen (…). [Helion
Occitanie
Hydrogen Power] teams (…) are diligently
working on the production of the 200 kW
hydrogen fuel cell.”

MARCH
2024 Source: Helion, Press release, March 5
 “(…) Hyliko will be taking part in the
forthcoming roll-out of the IMAGHyNE
(Auvergne Rhone Alpes Region) and
AdvancedH2Valley (Pays de la Loire Region)
projects. These two projects will enable the
emergence of "hydrogen valleys" within France
and Europe. (…) Hyliko will have the specific
task of accelerating the transition to hydrogen
Pays de la Loire for heavy goods vehicles in France by
Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes deploying its vehicle rental, energy and H2
services at the heart of these valleys.”

MARCH
2024 Source: Hyliko, Press release, March 6
 “The 18 members of the AdvancedH2Valley
consortium are proud to announce that their
project has received an 8.9 million euros grant
from the European Commission (…). The Kick-
off meeting occurred on 22-23 January 2024 in
Nantes, France, with the participation of all
consortium’s partners, coordinated by Lhyfe.
The project aims to introduce up to 11.5MW of
Pays de la Loire
new production capacities, in addition to
the 1 MW pioneer unit already in operation, and
innovative processes, including deploying one
of the first hydrogen truck fleet in the country
(…).”
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2024 Source: Lhyfe, Press release, March 6
 “Hype and EIFHYTEC are launching their
partnership by integrating the first new-
generation EIFHYTEC ultra-high-pressure
compressor into the Hype green hydrogen
distribution network. Deploying this
disruptive technology on a large scale should
improve the efficiency, reliability and cost of
hydrogen compression, a major technological
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challenge in the value chain, and thus
accelerate the deployment of this energy
carrier, which is vital to the development of
low-carbon mobility.”

MARCH
2024 Source: Hype, LinkedIn Post, March 13 (Translated with DeepL)
 “(…) the Arve Valley region is set to benefit
from a new asset in the decarbonisation of its
territory, with the launch of an innovative
hydrogen ecosystem: Arv'hy (which means
"goodbye" in Savoyard dialect). Spearheaded
by 5 leading local players (LSBN (…); Atawey
(…); Axpo (…); Crédit Agricole des Savoie and
Jean Lain Mobilités (…)), (…) this project aims
Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes
to [set] up a multi-use, multi-energy
recharging station for the general public in
Vougy, a commune in the Arve Valley in the
heart of the Alps. ”

MARCH
2024 Source: Atawey, Press release, March 14 (Translated with DeepL)
 “Lhyfe, (…) has received confirmation from the
French government of a financial support in
the form of a grant of up to €149 million for the
construction of a green hydrogen production
plant with an installed electrolysis capacity of
100 MW near Le Havre. This project, led by
Lhyfe for over two years, has been approved by
the European Commission as part of the third
Normandy
wave of IPCEI on hydrogen. With this project,
Lhyfe intends to produce up to 34 tonnes of
green hydrogen per day near the Grand Canal
du Havre, one of Europe’s largest industrial
port areas.”
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2024 Source: Lhyfe , Press release, March 18
 “Paris-Le Bourget airport is home to the 4th
public hydrogen refuelling station in the Paris
region, provided by HYSETCO, the European
leader in light hydrogen mobility. The
construction of this new station (…) will
strengthen the hydrogen network's territorial
coverage. 3 other stations are already available
at the Paris-CDG and Paris-Orly airports, as
Île-de-France
well as at Porte de Saint Cloud.”

MARCH
2024 Source: ADP Group, LinkedIn Post, March 19 (Translated with DeepL)
 “(…) the European consortium met for the
official launch of the FrHyGe project,
supported and funded by the [EU] through the
Clean Hydrogen Partnership. This 43 M€
project aims to validate the underground
storage of hydrogen in salt caverns on an
industrial scale. The project will allow the
deployment of an industrial demonstrator in
Provence-Alpes-Côte Manosque, France, as well as the replication
d’Azur study on the Harsefeld site in Germany and
more widely at a European scale.(…). (…)
Storengy, the project coordinator, and its
partners will carry out technical, economic,
regulatory, environmental, and safety studies.”
MARCH
2024 Source: GRTGaz, Press release, March 20 (Translated with DeepL)
 “INOCEL, a pioneering player in high-power
fuel cell systems for stationary energy
generation, heavy duty mobility and maritime,
has secured a structured financing of €64M
consisting of equity, debt, and subsidies. (...)
This financing will enable the company to:
Finalize the industrialization of its product;
Deliver pre-production runs as early as 2024;
Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes
Commission the Belfort production line by the
end of 2024; Internalize its test tools; Increase
production rate, with a « Start Of Production »
series in the 1st half of 2025; Accelerate sales
growth.”
MARCH
2024 Source: Inocel, Press release, March 22
 “(…) PONANT is collaborating with the Nantes-
based startup FARWIND Energy. (…) The two
partners have set themselves a goal to be in a
position to commission PONANT’s Swap2Zero
project and [FARWIND Energy] first energy
ship at the same time by 2030. (…) The core of
the project is the use of wind energy. Low-
temperature fuel cells running on liquid
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hydrogen are also being studied for ship
propulsion.”

MARCH
2024 Source: Farwind Energy, Press release, March 26 (Translated with DeepL)
 “This Wednesday, March 27th, marked the
inauguration of the Grand Belfort Water
Services' new hydrogen power generator (…).
The provision of 2 Boxhy units in "Twin"
configuration, along with a hydrogen storage
system by H2SYS, and a top-notch installation
by Eiffage Énergie Systèmes/Clemessy, with
high safety standards thanks to H2TEAM
Bourgogne-Franche- Hydrogen engineering!”
Comté

MARCH
2024 Source: H2SYS, LinkedIn Post, March 27
 “Created in 2018, MissionH24 helps promote
hydrogen in competition, with the aim of
creating an H2 category at the 24 Hours of Le
Mans and in the FIA World Endurance
Championship. This demonstration run of
hydrogen prototypes demonstrates the
commitment of manufacturers ready to join
this new category, the future of endurance
Pays de la Loire
after the formidable era of the current
hypercar. Between 12 p.m. and 1 p.m., on the
main 24 Hours of Le Mans circuit, several
hydrogen competition prototypes, using fuel
cells and hydrogen combustion engines, will
evolve at a sustained pace.”
MARCH
2024 Source: Mission H24, Press release, March 27 (Translated with DeepL)
 “HRS, the French designer and manufacturer
and European leader in hydrogen refuelling
stations, and SEVEN, a key player in the energy
transition, have announced their partnership
to install up to 5 hydrogen stations by 2025.
The SEVEN Group specialises in renewable
fuels, and more specifically, BioGNC
(Compressed Natural Gas) and BioH2 (green
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hydrogen). (…) the partners have decided to
combine their expertise in future hydrogen
mobility projects, with five 1 tonne/day HRS40
stations planned between 2024 and 2025.”

MARCH
2024 Source: HRS, Press release, March 28
 “The Centre National de Réception des
Véhicules (CNRV) has issued its approval for
our H2-PACK® conversion system. (…)This
approval, which marks the certification of the
kit designed and manufactured by SAFRA and
supported by ADEME, means that the first
Mercedes Intouro coaches retrofitted as
electric vehicles with hydrogen fuel cells can
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now be put on the road.”

MARCH
2024 Source: Safra, Press release, March 28 (Translated with DeepL)
 “INOCEL and HYmpulsion sail a boat on
hydrogen. HYmpulsion is continuing its
commitment to supporting hydrogen mobility
initiatives, symbolised by the first refuelling
operation of a pleasure boat powered by the
INOCEL fuel cell at the Chambéry station. This
initiative also demonstrates that HYmpulsion
is not confined to land vehicles alone, but is
AUVERGNE-RHÔNE-ALPES
also investing in hydrogen mobility solutions
adapted to other fields, such as pleasure
boating.”

MARCH
2024 Source: HYmpulsion, LinkedIn Post, March 29 (Translated with DeepL)