Kallista Energy and Lhyfe have signed an agreement for the output of a wind farm in France to supply electricity for producing green hydrogen.
The wind park in Brachy, in Seine-Maritime (France), has five wind turbines and is nearly 17 years old.
Kallista Energy, the farm’s owner and operator, plans to repower it with the latest-generation turbines, which will supply Lhyfe under a corporate PPA with a 15 year term.
The repowered wind park will be able to generate 70% more electricity with the same number of wind turbines.
The repowered Brachy wind park, which is due to come online in summer 2024, will have five Vestas V126 wind turbines providing total power of 15MW.
The wind park’s entire output will be used to power Lhyfe’s green and renewable hydrogen production sites, contributing to the decarbonisation of mobility.
Lhyfe has had a production site in Pays de la Loire since 2021 and will commission two new units in Brittany and Occitanie by the end of the year, for a maximum total production capacity of 4 tonnes of green and renewable hydrogen per day.
Further projects have also already been announced in new regions, such as the Central Loire Valley and eastern France.
This CPPA allows Lhyfe to further reinforce its network of renewable electricity supplier partners, while securing a long-term supply of green electricity for the development of its next sites and guaranteeing competitive sales conditions for renewable hydrogen in the long term.
“This agreement with Kallista Energy strengthens our network of green energy supplier partners and, in practical terms, allows us to have an additional 46GWh per year to power our future production sites.
“It is thanks to the trust of players such as Kallista Energy that the green and renewable hydrogen sector is ramping up, to rapidly and massively decarbonise industry and mobility,” said Matthieu Guesné, CEO and Founder of Lhyfe.