The government is set to unveil its green hydrogen support plan this fall. This energy carrier is aimed at decarbonizing industrial sectors and heavy mobility, for which solutions have been lacking until now.
A total investment of over 7 billion euros, including 2 billion allocated in the post-Covid recovery plan, will be dedicated to this future energy over ten years to reduce CO2 emissions from heavy trucks, buses, the refining industry, and steelmaking, among others.
By 2030, France will need to produce some 600,000 tonnes of hydrogen per year, using decarbonized electricity from renewable or nuclear sources. This is the target set by the government on Tuesday, as they presented the “national hydrogen plan,” whose main outlines were revealed last week as part of the recovery plan.
The executive is determined to avoid what happened at the beginning of the century with solar panels, which were mass-produced in China. France aims to manufacture its own electrolyzers, the devices that allow electricity to be transformed into hydrogen through the electrolysis of water.
