Lhyfe has signed a five-year offtake agreement with H2 Mobility Deutschland to supply 1,200 tonnes of green hydrogen to its refuelling stations in Germany.
Set to be initially supplied to four stations in Baden-Württemburg and Rhineland-Palatine via tube trailers, the hydrogen will be used by transport players at sites in Ludswigshafen and Frankenthal.
Currently boasting around 80 public refuelling stations in Germany, H2 Mobility offers hydrogen at 700 bar for passenger, commercial and refuse vehicles.
However, the percentage of green hydrogen supplied from those sites remains minimal, despite the firm’s plans to provide entirely green hydrogen across its network by 2028.
Lhyfe will produce the green hydrogen at its four-tonne-per-day plant in Schwäbish Gmünd, which the French firm says will meet the EU’s renewable fuels of non-biological origin (RFNBO) criteria.
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Currently under construction, the Schwäbish Gmünd site was expected to be commissioned in the second half of 2024.
Coming as the company’s first “long-term” offtake deal in Germany for bulk hydrogen, H2 View has reached out for confirmation on when deliveries are expected to begin.
Frank Fronzke, Managing Director and COO at H2 Mobility, said the deal would support its green hydrogen supply plans.
“Green hydrogen is a crucial element in our mission to make the transport sector more environmentally sustainable,” Fronzke added. “With this agreement the first brand new hydrogen refuelling stations will provide green hydrogen from 2025 onwards.”
Luc Graré, Lhyfe’s Head of Central and Eastern Europe, said, “This agreement is the realisation of Lhyfe and H2 MOBILITY’s shared ambition and common effort to make green hydrogen available in large volumes for the mobility sector, which is decarbonisation ready.”
