DIVERSIFY AND DECARBONIZE THE ENERGY MIX
WITH RENEWABLE GASES
Renewable gases will play an increasingly important role in tomorrow’s energy mix
and represent one of the solutions for accelerating the transition to a carbon neutral world.
With its proactive strategy, ENGIE will strengthen their production and make them efficient
energies of the future.
The current need to reconcile the
transition to a carbon-neutral economy
with the increase in global energy
demand makes development of the
technological sectors for renewable gas
production (methanization, methanation,
gasification, electrolysis) essential. They
contribute to the diversification of the
energy mix and to a carbon-neutral
economy. Their development will also
reduce Europe’s dependence on
fossil fuel imports while contributing
to its energy security.
Finally, renewable gases have
a positive impact on the communities:
they encourage the creation of jobs
that cannot be relocated and contribute
to the development of the circular
economy through the treatment of
waste (agricultural, urban, etc.) and
the recovery of residual organic matter
in the form of energy, biogenic CO
2
and biofertilizers.
RENEWABLE GASES: ENGIE, A KEY
PLAYER IN THIS HIGH-GROWTH MARKET
Driven by the demands of the energy
transition and by industrial and
commercial decarbonization needs,
the market for renewable gases is poised
for strong growth in the coming decade.
The war in Ukraine has served as
a powerful catalyst in strengthening
the Group’s commitments.
ENGIE intends to become
a major player in this market for
renewable gases, both as supplier,
continuing its historical activity of
selling natural gas, and as producer.
The Group’s ambition of becoming
a major producer of renewable gases
in Europe is in line with its strategic
objective of being a leader in the
energy transition, in particular through
the development of a renewable energy
production fleet, which would not only
be electric but also gas-based.
ENGIE has clear competitive advantages,
both in industrial and commercial
terms, for achieving this ambition and
this is true for all the renewable gases
currently being considered, biomethane
and synthetic biomethane, e-fuels
and renewable hydrogen.
RENEWABLE HYDROGEN,
A PARTICULARLY PROMISING GAS
Another vital ingredient to accelerate
the transition to carbon neutrality is
renewable hydrogen. Produced by
water electrolysis from renewable
electricity, this gas is now at the heart
of decarbonization objectives: it enables
renewable electricity to be stored in
the form of hydrogen (or methane
after a methanation process) and
decarbonization for current massive
uses of hydrogen (fertilizers, refineries,
chemicals, etc.) and for other industrial
sectors that are difficult to decarbonize
in other ways (steel industry). Finally,
renewable hydrogen is expected
to progressively contribute to the
decarbonization of mobility, whether
in heavy mobility with the development
of synthetic fuels (maritime, aviation) or
in road mobility with the
development
of “zero emission” vehicles
equipped
with a fuel cell.
This explains why the European
Commission presented a hydrogen
strategy for Europe’s climate neutrality
in 2020 as part of the Green Pact for
Europe. Similarly, France adopted a
National Strategy for the development
of decarbonized hydrogen costing
€9 billion for the period to 2030.
Present over the entire hydrogen
value chain from the production of
renewable energy to the end usages
ENGIE is positioned as a major player
in renewable hydrogen which could
well become a key energy of the future
With 5800 jobs in 2022 including
around 200 at ENGIE compared with
3500 in 2021 the French hydrogen
segment is rapidly expanding
After being a pioneer for a long
period the Group reached the stage of
industrialization of several hydrogen
projects in 2022
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