COP 27

Haffner Energy Contributed to the Special Report on Hydrogen

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Haffner Energy (Paris:ALHAF):

On the occasion of COP 27, Hydrogen Europe, the European association representing companies and national associations of the hydrogen industry, presented its Special Report on Hydrogen. The report analyzes the development of the hydrogen economy, its industrial and political challenges, and its market perspectives. It also highlights the industry's technological advances with case studies that demonstrate how hydrogen is a reality and how its numerous applications are paving the way to a climate-neutral society, with a positive impact on the environment and on our daily lives.

In the midst of global energy crisis, Frans Timmermans, Vice-President of the European Commission, states as a foreword to this report that "hydrogen is a strategic catalyst for the energy transition and an opportunity for a new industrial revolution that will have positive impacts in terms of economic growth, employment and energy security”. With its REPowerEU plan, the European Commission has confirmed its ambition to deploy renewable hydrogen more rapidly, setting a target of 20 million tons of renewable hydrogen produced by 2030, including the production of 10 million tons in Europe. This is a significant target, which requires a technology-neutral approach to ensure both energy independence and carbon neutrality for Europe in 2050.

In this respect, the technology developed by Haffner Energy, highlighted in the report, can be a major contribution to the European objectives of renewable hydrogen production. With this ambition, Haffner Energy, member of Hydrogen Europe, presents in this report the benefits of its technology based on biomass thermolysis.

Haffner Energy's HYNOCA technology: an agile and competitive industrial solution

Haffner Energy has developed and industrialized an innovative proprietary biomass thermolysis process called HYNOCA (HYdrogen No Carbon) that enables industry and mobility players to produce green carbon negative hydrogen or synthesis gas and biochar.

In the current context of soaring energy prices, HYNOCA technology distinguishes from other hydrogen production processes thanks to its many advantages. First, with its cost that has remained almost unchanged despite surge in energy prices of fossil fuels and electricity. Biomass thermolysis is a process that consumes very little electricity and relies on a primary energy source for which the costs have barely changed.