Lhyfe announced the launch of the first Green H₂ Marketplace, on its online portal Lhyfe Heroes. Since 2017, Lhyfe has been working to accelerate decarbonization through major innovations that are transforming, greening and modernizing the H₂ industry, such as the world’s first industrial-scale green H₂ production site directly connected to a wind farm in 2021, the world’s first pilot platform for producing green H_-[ at sea in 2022, and the digitalization of the sector, since 2022, with the Heroes digital platform whose flagship service is now the Marketplace.

Green H₂ is one of the levers for decarbonizing industry and transport. Every day, Lhyfe strives to make it accessible to as many people as possible, to provide significant decarbonization leverage to industry and mobility. But while producers, projects and uses are beginning to emerge across Europe, the industry is still using fairly traditional tools. In all sectors, digitalization has been a decisive lever for modernization and acceleration.

In 2022, Lhyfe launched the first building blocks of Heroes, the first digital platform for green H₂. This was the first step in digitalizing the sector, and it has since been regularly enhanced with new services. By launching the Green H₂ Marketplace today, Lhyfe is bringing producers and consumers closer together and facilitating access to this clean gas.

In a rapidly developing sector, the first phase of this marketplace will enable players with their own transport solutions to source green H₂ from referenced production sites, and producers to coordinate their efforts to strengthen the green H₂ offer across Europe:

• Better regional coverage: To meet the needs of customers wherever they are, while optimizing H₂ transport, thanks to a network of green-certified production sites throughout Europe.
• A growing choice of supply sources: Access to an increasingly wide range of products and services to meet a one-off increase in needs.
• Production optimization: To make any surplus production available, anticipate a maintenance operation, etc.
• Guaranteed green: All the H₂ available on the Marketplace is and will be guaranteed green by Lhyfe's experts.

Eventually, the marketplace will be available to all H₂ buyers requiring delivery (fuel stations, logistics centers, etc.). Many more features will be added in the coming weeks and months.

Interested users can register on the platform to request the creation of their account. Privately negotiated commercial terms are shared only between the seller and the buyer. The first version of the platform is free. The Marketplace already has around 10 partners.

Antoine Hamon, director of operations at Lhyfe said, “We first developed this tool internally, to boost our own efficiency and optimize our multi-site management, and then we offered it to other players in the sector.

“In just a few clicks, on a single map, we can see the different supply points and useful information for choosing the date and source.

“This saves time for both buyers and sellers. This marketplace opens up new opportunities for us to optimize our production sites and give our customers greater guarantees in terms of the availability of green H₂.”

Matthieu Guesné, Lhyfe’s founder and CEO said, “The digitalization of the sector has always been one of Lhyfe's projects.

“We developed an algorithmic part and remote control methods to optimize our production.

“The Heroes platform then enabled many players in the mobility sector to gain a better understanding of this sector and to structure their projects and today we are very proud to be launching the first Green H₂ Marketplace.

“In the industry, we are all convinced that it is by joining forces to offer an increasingly abundant supply that we will accelerate the transition to green H₂. The Marketplace is a new step in accelerating our decarbonization.”