The French are definitively including hydrogen in the energy vectors of the future, this is what is revealed by the latest edition of the barometer “The French and hydrogen” produced each year by Teregain partnership with Harris Interactive, which aims to better understand the French people’s perception of energy and in particular renewable energy. Hydrogen is therefore becoming part of the country’s future energy mix. Terega will be a key operator in the regions, particularly with its Hysow project.
In a context of unprecedented energy crisis, future infrastructures that will make it accessible at competitive costs are taking shape. This is the case of the HySoW (Hydrogen South West) project, a 600 km infrastructure connected to the H2Med project and supported by more than 30 stakeholders (regions, producers, consumers) which is being installed in the energy landscape of a decarbonized South-West. This project also aims to strengthen the security of supply of the entire energy system through hydrogen storage and an H2 to Power project. This corridor will consist of approximately 600 kilometers of pipelines, 40% of which can be converted from natural gas to hydrogen, allowing the transport of 16 TWh/year of decarbonized hydrogen throughout the South-West. The project will be structured around major hydrogen storage facilities in a salt cavern in New Aquitaine with a capacity of 500 GWh PCS in 2030, which could be increased to more than 1 TWh PCS by 2050.
HySoW is a facilitator of the H2Med “green energy corridor” project, officially announced last December in Alicante by the French, Spanish and Portuguese heads of state and governments at the Euromed Summit and supported by the European Commission. It constitutes one of the first pillars of the Mediterranean part of the future European Hydrogen Backbone.
