HYDROGEN, A SECTOR IN THE INDUSTRIALIZATION PHASE
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2022 represented a milestone for the development of renewable hydrogen. While the Group pursued
its policy of innovation and research and initiated new projects, it also moved further toward
industrialization. A critical prerequisite to make the energy transition a reality.
GOVERNANCE DEDICATED
TO HYDROGEN PROJECTS
A trailblazer in renewable energy,
the Group today is engaged in around
100 hydrogen projects of different sizes
and at different stages of maturity
in industry, mobility and networks.
To ensure the best possible sharing
of the strategic vision and the roll-out
of projects, ENGIE set up an internal
“hydrogen coordination cockpit”.
This governance body is intended
to facilitate interactions among
the different Group entities involved
in the hydrogen projects and provide
better visibility on the actions taken.
More broadly, the Group is a founding
member of the Hydrogen Council, which
is pursuing the goal of accelerating
the use of hydrogen as an energy
transition vector at the global level.
It is also a member of France Hydrogène,
which brings together industry
players to structure and accelerate
the development of hydrogen solutions
in France.
The challenges posed by the
industrialization of the hydrogen sector
require the creation of partnerships,
particularly to pool the financial risks.
Thus, on November 3, 2022, ENGIE
inaugurated the H2 Factory, a test
platform intended to accelerate
the development of the renewable
hydrogen sector by establishing a
connection between R&D and industrial
applications with the contribution of
many partners, including startups,
in the context of European R&D projects
within international consortia.
BECOME A WORLD PLAYER
IN RENEWABLE HYDROGEN
The Group combines the expertise of
all its international and French teams
around three axes of development:
industrial usages, mobility and
hydrogen as an energy vector.
This involves the teams from ENGIE
Lab CRIGEN, ENGIE Impact, Tractebel,
Storengy, ENGIE Solutions, ENGIE Green,
GNVERT, GEMS and its GBU Renewables
and GBU Flex Gen & Retail.
As such, the Group is positioning itself
over the entire hydrogen value chain,
from the production of renewable
energy to operations, maintenance and
distribution, and acts for its customers
as integrator, operator and developer
of a broad range of industrial-scale
solutions, built on partnerships and
innovative technologies.
INDUSTRIALIZING THE SOLUTIONS
Numerous projects to produce renewable
hydrogen through electrolysis are being
rolled out in France and internationally
to decarbonize the industry and
to develop new industrial divisions
and more sustainable mobility
see map opposite
ADAPTING THE NETWORKS
The production of hydrogen
on an industrial scale requires
the development and planning of
transport and storage networks
ENGIE is committed to the
European H2
Backbone initiative and is supporting
the deployment of a network of nearly
40,000 km of hydrogen networks in
21 countries, two-thirds of which would
be made up of existing networks that
have been repurposed.
ACTING WITH THE COMMUNITIES
ENGIE’s local roots are a real asset in
uniting the various economic players
and institutions in the development
of renewable hydrogen in the local
communities. To create these new
production, operation and distribution
circuits, ENGIE relies on trusted partners,
its detailed knowledge of the regions
in which it is present, and its ability
to act over the entire value chain.
In France, ENGIE is actively responding
to calls to bid on regional projects
launched by the French environmental
agency ADEME with solutions intended
to accelerate the development
of hydrogen uses. Hydrogen holds
the promise of a new technological,
energy and industrial sector, both
locally and globally, with the additional
benefit of new jobs. A vital division
for contributing to the decarbonization
of the energy mix.
COMMITTING TO NATURAL
HYDROGEN PRODUCTION
Along with projects to produce
hydrogen by electrolysis, the Group is
committed to the development of the
natural hydrogen production market
in order to promote a lowcarbon and
competitive supply through Storengy
This gas is continuously generated
deep within the surface of the Earth
and in particular can be mined via
boreholes In 2022 Storengy launched
a campaign to measure emissions
of natural hydrogen to identify areas
with high potential for the development
of this market
Our ambition is to be a leader in
renewable hydrogen even if we
will also need lowcarbon hydrogen
to develop the division and the
market ENGIE is positioned over
the entire hydrogen value chain
from production to distribution
including transmission via pipelines
and storage in salt caverns
Valérie RuizDomingo ENGIE Group
Hydrogen VicePresident
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