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Nantes, France — Lhyfe and Source Galileo have agreed to jointly develop commercial-scale green and renewable hydrogen production facilities in the UK and Ireland.
The plan is to provide the hydrogen produced to industries and transportation companies to help decarbonize their businesses.
The planned facility will be similar to Rife’s recently opened factory in the Occitanie region of southern France. In Ireland, we seek to identify potential consumers and assess factors such as grid availability, electricity supply, land accessibility and planning requirements.
Initially focused on harnessing electricity from onshore renewable energy sources, in the longer term it could also be extended to offshore wind energy in the UK and Ireland to address grid constraints. there is.
Lhyfe produces green hydrogen through water electrolysis, and its system uses renewable electricity. The first factory in Pays-de-la-Loire in western France has been in operation since the second half of 2021, and two more locations opened last month in the Occitanie and Brittany regions.
A further five sites are under construction or expansion elsewhere in Europe. Liff launched UK operations in Newcastle and Sheffield in the north of England in 2022.
The company aims to have a green hydrogen production capacity of 200MW by the end of 2026 and 3GW by the end of 2030.
Source Galileo has approximately 10 GW of offshore wind and hydrogen projects under development in the UK, Ireland and Norway, as well as onshore battery storage and solar power projects.
The UK government’s own low carbon hydrogen production target is 10GW by 2030, at least half of which will come from green hydrogen. Ireland’s National Hydrogen Strategy, announced last July 2023, calls for the country to produce 2GW of hydrogen from offshore wind farms by 2030.
January 23, 2024