Lyfe, a renewable green hydrogen production company, has teamed up with DORIS, an offshore engineering firm, on an offshore hydrogen production project.
Lhyfe and DORIS intend to deploy the first floating wind turbines that can be integrated with hydrogen production systems, as well as discover large-scale solutions.
The two firms will sign a memorandum of agreement just weeks after Lhyfe’s Bouin production plant in Vendée starts producing the first hundreds of kilos of carbon-free green hydrogen.
The two businesses announced that “this world-first operating expertise will be utilized to finish the development of DORIS and Lhyfe’s patented solution, Nerehyd.”
“This unique device combines Lhyfe’s green renewable hydrogen knowledge with DORIS’s Nerewind floating wind turbine technology. On-grid is the Nerehyd solution, which integrates hydrogen production equipment onto a wind turbine floater. It can also be used in off-grid applications, ranging from tiny 10-megawatt wind turbines to large-scale wind power facilities with hundreds of megawatts of capacity, according to the two businesses.
According to a press release issued on Monday, the project expenditure would be roughly 60 million euros (including R&D and manufacture of the first prototype in 2025).
The two partners’ objectives are to complete the solution design. Overcome significant technological and budgetary challenges. Pilot projects should be developed and funded. Determine which projects will be used at an industrial scale.
DORIS Engineering’s Executive Deputy Managing Director, Xavier Grandio, stated, “This demands a lot of electricity.”
“We think that employing Lhyfe, offshore production will be the most efficient approach to manufacture huge amounts of green hydrogen without damaging the landscape on the ground or depending on current grid connections.” Our NerehydTM system is perfect as a big, long-term, and cost-effective instrument. Production of green hydrogen. We have all the keys to a successful Nerehyd with Lhyfe.”
Indeed, one is that offshore is the key to large-scale growth of renewable hydrogen, according to Matthieu Guesné, CEO and creator of Lhyfe. Traditional players are seeking for methods to scale up their infrastructure and solutions as the number of offshore wind farms grows. We are excited about the future of this industry and are devoted to provide a wide range of solutions to meet the needs of any circumstance.”
In addition to working together on Nerehyd, which is the partnership’s main emphasis, Lhyfe and DORIS will look into the possibilities of collaborating on other types of offshore hydrogen production technologies.