Our achievements over the past six months
Hydrogen energy
TOWARDS MORE SUSTAINABLE ROAD TRANSPORTATION
Air Liquide believes that hydrogen is an essential alternative energy in the drive for clean transportation, and launched two new key initiatives in July:
▶THE CONSTRUCTION OF THE FIRST HIGH-PRESSURE HYDROGEN REFUELING STATION IN EUROPE
Located in Fos-sur-Mer, in the south of France, this station will enable up to 20 daily refuelings of long-haul trucks with low-carbon hydrogen. This initiative is part of the HyAMMED(1) project which aims to reduce CO2 emissions by more than 1,500 metric tons per year, the equivalent of more than 2 million kilometers traveled by truck.
▶A PARTNERSHIP WITH THE PORT OF ROTTERDAM TO FOSTER HYDROGEN-POWERED TRUCKS
Objective: to allow 1,000 hydrogen-powered “zero emission” trucks to travel between the Netherlands, Belgium and Germany by 2025. Several partners from across the supply chain — truck manufacturers, carriers, fuel cell suppliers — have already committed to this initiative. This project will enable both a reduction in CO2 emissions by around 100,000 metric tons per year and an improvement in air quality.
(1) A French alliance of industrial, transportation and mass retail players.
Innovation
MODERNIZING AND MAKING INDUSTRY CLEANER
Air Liquide will build the first global oxygen production plant incorporating an energy storage system. This innovative and unique process will contribute to making the power grid more stable and increase the quantity of renewable energy injected. The project, located in the Port of Moerdijk in the Netherlands, illustrates the Group’s strategy to grow in strategic industrial basins, as well as its ability to design new solutions in line with its Climate objectives.
~ 10%
REDUCTION IN ELECTRICITY CONSUMPTION ON SITE
€125 M
INVESTMENT BY AIR LIQUIDE