TotalEnergies To Produce Green Hydrogen At La Mède

TotalEnergies has joined forces with Air Liquide to produce renewable hydrogen at La Mède in southeast France. Air Liquide will build, own, and operate a new hydrogen production unit at TotalEnergies’ La Mède site, with a capacity of 27,558 tons (25,000 tonnes) per year. It will enable the production of renewable hydrogen from recycled biogenic by-products from the TotalEnergies biorefinery, instead of using fossil hydrocarbons as feedstock. The renewable hydrogen produced will be used mainly by the biorefinery to produce biofuels and sustainable aviation fuel. The new unit is expected to start production in 2028.

“This new renewable hydrogen production project, carried out with Air Liquide, allows us to accelerate the decarbonization of our La Mède platform. Almost 10 years after the announcement of its conversion, La Mède is continuing its transformation and is becoming a low-carbon hydrogen production center, thus contributing to the decarbonization ambition of the Provence-Alpes-Côte-D’azur region,” said Vincent Stoquart, president, refining & chemicals, at TotalEnergies.