October 17, 2024,
by
Naida Hakirevic Prevljak
A consortium of partners is taking a explore to achieve an considerable hub for low-carbon hydrogen and CO2 management in the Mediterranean within Port-La Nouvelle in France.
On September 20, 2024, a memorandum of belief (MoU) used to be signed between the Occitanie Location, DEME Concessions NV, Euroports and Teréga.
The heroic project is a part of the vitality transition, both at regional and European level, the events said.
Specifically, the partnership objectives to make port and logistics infrastructures in Port-La Nouvelle dedicated to the future flows of natty molecules corresponding to hydrogen as effectively as to these pertaining to to CO2, and so a lot of of various fuels or low-carbon by-products. The partners will collaborate on a feasibility evaluate and produce of these infrastructures in cease coordination with native stakeholders.
In collaboration with European projects such because the HySoW hydrogen corridors, or these connected to CO2, these initiatives will connect the port of Port-La Nouvelle to considerable hydrogen and CO2 transport infrastructures, thus strengthening its feature in the vitality transition.
The improvement of the port infrastructure will become the port of Port-La-Nouvelle into a platform for the import and export of hydrogen, CO2 and low-carbon by-products. At final, hydrogen import ability can also reach 2 million so a lot per year.
SEMOP Port-La Nouvelle is the concessionaire of the port of Port-La Nouvelle, for which the Occitanie Location is the concession grantor. While the achieve aside is a public accomplice within SEMOP, Euroports and DEME Concessions are industrial partners. Teréga, a lengthy-standing player in gas transport and storage in the south-west of France, is thus investing alongside these avid gamers by procedure of this partnership.
The port of Port-La Nouvelle is increasing all at this time. At this stage, SEMOP has already utilized considerable extension work in deep waters, including the dredging of the port at 15.9 meters to accommodate neat seagoing ships and the appearance of bigger than 150 hectares of land condominium. As well to to these achievements, the come of specialized jetties for the handling of liquid bulk is ongoing. This extension shall be operational in 2026.
This partnership is asserted to be fully in response to the REPOS strategy of the Occitanie Location, which objectives to become a POSitive Energy Location and meet 100% of vitality wants with renewable energies by 2050. This might perhaps occasionally thus contribute to strengthening the industrial and vitality ideal looks of the achieve aside whereas selling job advent.
“This partnership marks a key milestone in our dedication to the vitality transition. By participating with strategic avid gamers such because the Occitanie Location, DEME and Euroports, we’re organising modern infrastructures that will create Port-La-Nouvelle a key hub for green hydrogen and CO2. This project reinforces our ambition to make sustainable solutions to tempo up the decarbonization of territories and beef up France in opposition to a carbon-honest economy,” Dominique Mockly, Chairman and Chief Executive Officer of Teréga, commented.
“By leveraging our expertise in port logistics, we’re proud to contribute to the skill construction of Port-La-Nouvelle as a strategic hub for green hydrogen and CO2 management. Along with our partners, we aim to manufacture sustainable infrastructure that supports Europe’s transition to a carbon-honest future, whereas reinforcing the Mediterranean’s feature in world vitality logistics,” Frédéric Platini, CEO of Euroports, said.
“The signing of this settlement reinforces the strategic feature of the port of Port-La-Nouvelle, where we acquire now made grand investments to achieve it because the port of vitality transition in the Mediterranean. This initiative also enhances our targets in low-carbon energies, including green hydrogen, the skill of which the Location identified early on and is now advancing by procedure of a dedicated €150 million thought. Recently, I celebrate this partnership, which is one more predominant step toward achieving carbon neutrality in Occitanie,” Carole Delga, President of the Occitanie achieve aside, concluded.
