Lhyfe signs wind offtake agreement to power hydrogen production sites

French power producer Kallista Energy has signed a contract to sell wind-generated electricity to renewable hydrogen producer Lhyfe.

The wind park in Brachy, France, has five wind turbines and is nearly 17 years old.

Plant owner and operator Kallista Energy plans to repower it which will allow the farm to generate 70% more electricity with the same number of wind turbines.

The repowered Brachy wind park, which is due to come online in 2024, will comprise five Vestas V126 wind turbines providing total power of 15MW. It will produce 46GWh of renewable electricity each year.

The financing for the repowering of Brachy wind park was secured thanks to the 15-year Corporate Power Purchase Agreement (CPPA) concluded between Kallista Energy and Lhyfe.

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The wind park’s entire output will be used to power Lhyfe’s green and renewable hydrogen production sites, ultimately aiding in the decarbonisation of local industry.

“The complementarity of renewable energy and green hydrogen is doubly virtuous: wind energy, transformed into hydrogen, makes it possible to quickly decarbonise industries that cannot use electricity directly and hydrogen makes it possible to eliminate wind energy variability thanks to the flexibility of electrolysers," commented Frédéric Roche, CEO of Kallista Energy.

Lhyfe has had a production site in Pays de la Loire since 2021, will commission two new units in Brittany and Occitanie by the end of the year, and has already planned for future projects in the Central Loire Valley and eastern France.

CPPAs such as this one help to ensure Lhyfe has a secure supply of green electricity for the development of future sites and guarantee competitive sales conditions for renewable hydrogen in the long term.

“This agreement with Kallista Energy strengthens our network of green energy supplier partners and, in practical terms, allows us to have an additional 46GWh per year to power our future production sites. It is thanks to the trust of players such as Kallista Energy that the green and renewable hydrogen sector is ramping up, to rapidly and massively decarbonise industry and mobility,” said Matthieu Guesné, CEO and Founder of Lhyfe.