2023-08-30 21:36:17
A French consortium combining TSE, producer of solar electricity, and Lhyfe, specialist in renewable hydrogen, will take over the disused Fonderies du Poitou site in Châtellerault (Vienne), announced on Wednesday August 30, the two companies, which aim to create an industrial park hosting up to 300 jobs.
One year after the definitive closure of the Poitou Aluminum Foundry, an automotive subcontractor which employed 290 employees, the Paris Commercial Court validated the acquisition of the land assets by the consortium.
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This reconversion, after depollution, should allow the buyers to develop their activities jointly on the site of the Ingrandes foundries (Vienne, 43 hectares, 40,000 m2 of buildings) while TSE will take over the technical landfill center of Oyré (35 hectares) to produce solar energy up to 45 GWh.
“The photovoltaic power that TSE plans to install (…) could supply electricity to the Fonderies d’Ingrandes site, and enable Lhyfe to produce green and renewable hydrogen”can we read in a communiqué conjoint. “The electricity produced will represent the equivalent of the consumption of the city of Poitiers”or about 90,000 inhabitants, we can read.
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Other companies could join the project, with marks of interest from an industrial logistics company or companies producing e-fuel (e-methanol and rDME).
This industrial park could thus, “with the contribution of all the companies concerned”allow to create “250 to 300 jobs” for an investment of “several hundred million euros”argues the consortium.
The Fonderies du Poitou site, a long-standing Renault subcontractor, had 2,000 employees in the years 1990-2000 before having to gradually reduce its activity. The final closure of the last site was announced in the summer of 2022.
“This is an emblematic project for the conversion of a major industrial site”welcomed Alain Rousset, president (PS) of the Nouvelle-Aquitaine region, welcoming “a second wind for the labor market” of Chatellerault.
Listed on the stock exchange, the company Lhyfe (149 employees) began operating a first green hydrogen production site in September 2021, powered by renewable energy sources, in Vendée, and several other production sites are under construction in France, Germany and Sweden.
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TSE, for its part, has seventeen solar power plants and inaugurated in 2021 the photovoltaic power plant of Marville (Meuse), the second largest power plant in France.
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