Schneider Electric and Storengy, a subsidiary of ENGIE, have announced a partnership to provide underground hydrogen storage solutions as part of the zero-carbon transition.
By forming this partnership, Storengy and Schneider Electric are combining their fields of expertise to help businesses decarbonize. “Schneider Electric is assisting in the shift to a more digital and electric world in order to meet the challenges posed by the climate crisis. “Our partnership with Storengy fits into this strategy to help our direct and indirect clients achieve their carbon neutrality goals faster,” said Marc Fromager, Schneider Electric France’s Director of Industrial Automation and End Users.
At the Etrez storage site, a first project called HyPSTER* kicks off this collaboration (in the department of Ain). To produce renewable hydrogen, the solution will be powered by local renewable energy (photovoltaic, hydraulic). In a salt cavern, this project aims to install a demonstrator for underground hydrogen storage. It will also serve as a means of validating the process’s technical and economic reproducibility at other European locations.
Schneider Electric will lend its expertise in the fields of automation, process instrumentation, gas analysis, and energy distribution solutions to Storengy in order to support this zero-carbon solution.
Both companies will collaborate to develop a Power Systems and Process Automation solution for underground hydrogen storage. Indeed, the solutions implemented necessitate manufacturer expertise, both in terms of energy management and process control. As a result, Schneider Electric will create packages that can be replicated in other facilities.
“Storengy salutes this agreement with Schneider Electric, which is a great opportunity to pursue common research and development projects in order to offer concrete, innovative and replicable solutions to our clients. In a carbon-neutral world, underground hydrogen storage will play an essential role to provide resiliency and flexibility to the energy system”, specifies Camille Bonenfant-Jeanneney, Storengy CEO.
