Air Liquide supports supply chain to accelerate H2 mobility in France
The company will allocate €50 million to establish a new hydrogen packaging and delivery supply chain to refueling stations across the Seine Axis.
Air Liquide will invest €50 million in a new hydrogen packaging and delivery supply chain to refueling stations along the Seine Axis, to support the acceleration of low-carbon mobility in France.
The new packaging site will be supplied with renewable hydrogen from the company’s Normand’Hy electrolyzer with a capacity of 200 MW currently under construction. This investment will contribute to the decarbonization of industry and mobility in the Normandy and Ile-de-France regions.
The establishment of this supply chain will support the growing number of hydrogen vehicles along the Seine Axis, from Le Havre to the Ile-de-France.
“Leveraging the capacities of the future Air Liquide Normand’Hy electrolyzer, this investment in the renewable hydrogen supply chain constitutes a concrete and decisive step forward in favor of low-carbon transportation around the Seine Axis,” said Emilie Mouren-Renouard, member of Air Liquide’s Executive Committee.
This concerns both intensive mobility such as hydrogen taxis, which are expected to triple in number between 2023 and the end of 2024. Additionally, it encompasses corporate fleets of light utility vehicles, as well as heavy mobility with hydrogen buses and trucks.
Air Liquide's hydrogen network in Normandy already includes two hydrogen production units - the one located at the TotalEnergies refinery in Gonfreville and another at Port-Jérôme, where the Group has installed its CO₂ capture solution CryocapTM in 2015.
