(Boursier.com) — HRS announces the laying of the first stone of a hydrogen refueling station in Lorient. This was ordered in December 2022.
An ambitious project in Lorient
Lorient Agglomeration, the third largest agglomeration in Brittany, has been pursuing an ambitious energy transition policy for several years to meet the global challenges of limiting global warming. Strong in its desire to decarbonise its transport, the agglomeration wishes to accelerate the decarbonisation of its territory and reduce its greenhouse gas emissions in the sector by 78%. Thus, with the help of ADEME, the Brittany Region and Morbihan Energies, a project to deploy an ecosystem for the production and distribution of green energy in the region was born.
By 2030, the entire thermal fleet of buses and boat-buses should gradually migrate to alternative low-carbon solutions, part of which will run on hydrogen.
Commissioning in fall 2023
HyGO, a company made up of Engie Solutions and SEM 56 Energies, leader of the mobility part of this project, has entrusted HRS with the supply and installation of a green hydrogen refueling station which should be commissioned at autumn 2023. This station will simultaneously refuel vehicles with fast charging and the 19 hydrogen buses soon to be deployed by Lorient Agglomeration, with slow charging, a first for a high-capacity station in France.
The first stone was laid on the site of the bus depot on May 9, 2023, by Fabrice Loher, president of Lorient Agglomeration, marking the start of construction work on the distribution site for the bus depot.
This hydrogen refueling station will be the second in the Morbihan department after that of Vannes, already installed by HRS in 2022, on the Michelin site.
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