2024-02-06 18:00:03
Artist’s impression of the future e-fuels manufacturing site of eM Rhône in Salaise-sur-Sanne (Isère) DR
DECRYPTION – The French e-fuels office calls on the State to reserve 3% of annual national electricity production to support the sector, and to grant it attractive prices.
In the global battle for decarbonization, synthetic fuels, called electrofuels (e-fuels), obtained by combining low-carbon hydrogen with CO2 (captured in the air), are emerging as an interesting lever. to achieve net zero carbon. Particularly for the most difficult to decarbonize industries such as air and maritime transport. Especially since these e-fuels make it possible to promote electrical energy and are easily stored and transported with existing networks and infrastructures. However, France must not fall behind its global competitors in order to ensure its independence, warned this Wednesday the French Office of e-fuels, created at the beginning of July 2023, in the wake of the Paris Air Show.
This new body, founded at the initiative of the Volv-V group, reference shareholder of Elyse Energy, an SME specializing in the production of e-methanol and sustainable aviation fuels (SAF), and the firm…
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