May 2025 | French Hydrogen Companies International Business Development Update The new achievements for the french hydrogen companies

le 10 June 2025

Upstream | Production

Bureau Veritas has issued its “renewable ammonia” certification for the first phase of Envision Energy’s renewable hydrogen and ammonia project in Chifeng, China.

Hynamics Deutschland reserved land at the GreenTec Park Steyerberg to build an electrolytic hydrogen production facility with an initial capacity of 300 MW, scalable to 500 MW, aiming to produce up to 50 kt/y of RFNBO renewable hydrogen for injection into Germany’s emerging hydrogen backbone.

Lhyfe has completed its first delivery of renewable hydrogen to Spain’s Valencia region to support trials exploring the replacement of natural gas in energy-intensive industrial processes.

Lhyfe has announced a “citizen financing” initiative for four hydrogen production projects, including its production site in Schwäbisch Gmünd, Germany. This announcement follows the securing of €53 million in debt financing concluded last April.

Technip Energies has entered into a strategic partnership with Graphitic Energy to co-develop and deploy its methane pyrolysis technology, which produces low-carbon hydrogen and graphite from natural gas. The agreement includes funding for test campaigns.

TotalEnergies and Eren’s joint venture, TotalEnergies H2, has submitted an environmental impact study for its renewable hydrogen and ammonia project in southern Chile, targeting an annual production of 1.9 million tonnes of renewable ammonia by 2030. The project’s first phase, valued at €14.1 billion, is expected to cover 4,000 hectares and include a wind farm, desalination plant, electrolysers, ammonia production

Downstream |

Industry: ammonia, methanol, kerosene, steel and other derivatives and chemicals, etc.

Neste’s refinery in Rotterdam, Netherlands, for which Technip Energies carried out the front-end engineering design, engineering, and construction management for its modification, has started producing sustainable aviation fuel. The site has a production capacity of 500,000 tonnes per year.

MGH Energy has signed a memorandum of understanding with Pertamina New & Renewable Energy, a subsidiary of Indonesia’s national oil company, to co-develop, co-finance, and commercialize renewable synthetic fuels, with expertise sharing and studies on markets and infrastructure.

Mobility: fuel cell and internal combustion engine for road, railway, maritime, aviation

HDF Energy signed a memorandum of understanding with Vietnamese maritime group VIMC to develop the use of renewable hydrogen and fuel cell technologies in VIMC’s maritime and logistics activities. The partnership includes joint studies and pilot projects to integrate these solutions into the group’s fleet, ports, and logistics operations.

Stationary uses: power and heat for building

EODev has signed a distribution agreement with Aspectair to deploy its GEH2 hydrogen generator across Canada. The electro-hydrogen generator is expected to help decarbonize sectors such as heavy industry, construction, events, mobility, and aerospace.

HDF Energy has signed a memorandum of understanding with Indonesia’s national electricity company PT PLN and infrastructure financing company PT Sarana Multi Infrastruktur to explore financing opportunities and strengthen the bankability of its renewable hydrogen power generation projects. In parallel, an agreement was signed with the provincial government of the Eastern Lesser Sunda Islands (Nusa Tenggara) to develop stationary projects in the region.

HDF Energy and Southern Power Corporation (EVNSPC), a subsidiary of Vietnam Electricity, have signed a memorandum of understanding to develop renewable hydrogen power generation projects, with a priority focus on isolated islands in southern Vietnam. The partnership includes technical and feasibility studies, site identification, coordination with local authorities, and knowledge sharing.

R&D&I |

Airbus, through its Dutch technology centre and its innovation subsidiary Airbus UpNext, has launched the ICEFlight (Innovative Cryogenic Electric Flight) project with TU Delft University and local partners. As part of the Dutch public-private programme Luchtvaart in Transitie, which aims to support the sustainable transition of the aviation sector, the project seeks to accelerate the development of cryogenic technologies for hydrogen-powered aircraft.