TotalEnergies signed an agreement in June with the German VNG to obtain 10,000 to 15,000 tonnes per year of green hydrogen in order to decarbonize its Leuna refinery (Saxony) in Germany. WALTRAUD GRUBITZSCH/dpa Picture-Alliance via AFP
DECRYPTION – TotalEnergies is launching a call for tenders to buy 500,000 tonnes per year.
There decarbonization of industry is underway, and it will be done using green hydrogen. TotalEnergies has just struck a major blow with a call for tenders for the supply of 500,000 tonnes of green hydrogen per year on a European scale. Objective of the energy giant: decarbonize the group’s six “traditional” refineries in Europe (three in France – Normandy, Donges and Feyzin – one in Belgium, one in Germany and one in the Netherlands) and two biorefineries in France ( in La Mède and Grandpuits). This green hydrogen must replace current fossil hydrogen by 2030.
This call for tenders proves that investments in the production of green or low-carbon hydrogen, pushed by public authorities in France and Europe, meet a real demand from manufacturers. In a study published in December, France Hydrogène, which brings together the entire sector in France, specified that “the decarbonization of industry remains the preferred route to mification”
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