Meet our Partner Monday: Our french Partner CIRCOÉ is the leader of the french pilot who deals with the regional hydrogen chain from producer to end-user.
About CIRCOÉ
CIRCOÉ is an innovation and technologies transfer centre created in 1992 in Le Havre, France, which specialises in Transports and Logistics. We aim at stimulating economic development by bringing innovation to logistics, we help companies to optimize their logistic processes and implement innovative tools to develop innovative logitics organisations. We offer our services to companies, industries and European projects.
Our role in the project
CIRCOÉ is the leader of the French pilot. We will draft a feasibility study covering the regional hydrogen chain from producer to end-user involving key stakeholders and clusters such as Logistique Seine Normandy (LSN) based in Normandy. It will work on a Business model based on incentives, barriers and future evolution of regulations in the region, to collect and optimise the Data which will feed the platform. CIRCOE will propose a roadmap with future projections in the region and organise communication activities with its partners to promote LIHYP. project.projectogrowing need for hydrogen.
Our vision of the hydrogen economy of the future
H2 is part of the solution for the green energy transition but still faces a few challenges (boil-off problem, explosion risks, cost, bunkering, storage…) which slow down its development. There is a need for authorities’ incentives at a time when the high cost of H2 jeopardizes investments plans and when the momentum behind the growth of the H2 sector is soaring. Other solutions involving H2 are explored such as e-fuel, a synthetic fuel combining CO2 from the atmosphere and H2 produced by electrolysis. However, H2 milestones are crossed; the Mercedes-Benz GenH2 produced by Daimler Truck, has crossed the symbolic 1,000-km mark with a full tank of liquid H2.