Following a 12-month-long joint R&D programme focused on developing economically viable offshore green hydrogen production solutions, Lhyfe, a world pioneer and pure player in renewable green hydrogen production, and DORIS, an integrated engineering and project management group and a leader in offshore technology, have decided to become official partners to step up their work on offshore hydrogen production. Together they plan to launch the first floating wind turbine for integration with a hydrogen production system and identify larger-scale opportunities for their solutions.
In committing to work together under this agreement, DORIS and Lhyfe wish to combine their outstanding technical innovations and excellence in their respective fields of expertise, while fostering a relationship of mutual trust and understanding.
The signing of the MoU by the two companies comes just several weeks after Lhyfe's Bouin production site in Vendée began producing the first few hundreds kilos a day of carbon-free green hydrogen. The operational knowledge gained from this world first will be employed to finalize the development of DORIS' and Lhyfe's proprietary solution NerehydTM. This exclusive product combines Lhyfe's expertise in green renewable hydrogen production with DORIS' floating wind turbine solution NerewindTM. The NerehydTM solution, which incorporates a hydrogen production facility into the floater of a wind turbine, could be deployed for on-grid or off-grid applications, from small-scale 10-megawatt wind turbines to large-scale wind farms with several hundred megawatts of capacity.
The budget for the project - including R&D and the production of the first prototype, due in 2025 - will be in the region of 60 million euros.