Government lifts its foot on hydrogen

The executive is reducing its ambitions for the development of the hydrogen industry, a gas both intended to replace fossil fuels at the most polluting industrial sites and to drive electric vehicles.

The result of a collaboration between CNRS and Michelin, a new Grenoblus laboratory dedicated to hydrogen was inaugurated on 14 March 2025. His research will focus on a water electrolysis technology combining the advantages of ac...

Hydrogen strategy: electrolysis remains a priority Despite the difficulties encountered by Elogen and McPhy, the government supports the electrolysing industry with a subsidy of 100 million for Gen-Hy. But, the industry must continue to structure itself in order to be more resilient and spend years of a phase of deployment with reliable technologies. The state supports, through the Hydrogen PIIEC and at the level of 600 million euros, the develo…

EXCLUSIVE. The Belgian company John Cockerill has applied for the resumption of the activities of McPhy, this French company manufacturing electrolyzers in financial collapse. The deadline for the submission of tenders is Friday, May 9.