Hydrogène de France (HDF) is now a French industrial company after launching its high-powered fuel cell production plant. It recently announced how it signed a technology transfer agreement with Ballard Power Systems and commenced production.
The plant, located in Bordeaux, will be the world’s first to mass-produce high-powered PACs (over 1MW) with a production capacity of 50MW per year within five years. It will utilize the PEM (Proton Exchange Membrane) technology.
The facility will manufacture an essential element of the future’s crucial hydrogen power generation infrastructures. The standardization and industrialization of these systems help to reduce the cost and significantly improve their maintenance and reliability.
HDF will produce products integrated with fuel cell stacks of the Canadian company Ballard. It’s an exclusive worldwide agreement that grants HDF the opportunity to offer high-powered fuel cells whose prices and performance are adapted to the energy market. Ballard is the most widely deployed technology of fuel cells in the world today.
Damien Havard, President, and Founder of HDF:
We are particularly pleased with this cooperation with Ballard. HDF industrializes reliable FCs at a price adapted to the market. The standardization of this strategic brick will allow the production of non-polluting and competitive electricity on a large scale. HDF provides an industrial solution that was missing to develop the massive storage of renewable energy. Our market is huge: this is the end of the intermittency of renewable energies!
HDF Industry is determined to play a pioneering role in the burgeoning hydrogen market. Now that the world is shifting away from fossil fuels, hydrogen is considered one of the leading solutions for the energy transition.
It is developing in multiple directions, not just mobility – including, for example, stationary applications. The company’s vision is based on the growth of hydrogen as a fuel and an instrument for storing electricity.
Now that renewable energies have obtained a position in the world of power by conquering the challenge of competitiveness, the next step is to make it commonplace. HDF Industry is confident the time has come to overcome the current problem of intermittency and make hydrogen fuel a generally known commodity.
