ENGIE, the Durance, Luberon, Verdon urban area (DLVA) and Air Liquide are signing a cooperation agreement to develop the HyGreen Provence project which aims at producing , storing and distributing green hydrogen.
Initiated in 2017, HyGreen Provence will make it possible to develop and validate the technico-economic conditions for the production of 1,300 GWh of solar electricity, equivalent to the annual residential consumption of about 450,000 people, together with the production of renewable hydrogen on an industrial scale through water electrolysis.
The project will be developed in several phases with the first deliverables envisaged by the end of 2021 and a possible final phase in 2027. Eventually, several tens of thousands of metric tons of renewable hydrogen could be produced every year to meet a very broad spectrum of uses.
The DLVA urban area region, which comprises 25 municipalities and 65,000 inhabitants, has considerable advantageous resources for this project, including one of France’s most favourable levels of sunshine (an average of 1,450 hours per year), substantial land availability and the presence of a salt cavity storage site able to accommodate the large-scale centralised production of renewable hydrogen.
