{"id":3557,"date":"2023-07-28T12:50:00","date_gmt":"2023-07-28T11:50:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/portstrategy.nfdtesting.uk\/greenport\/2023\/07\/28\/green-fuel-platform-under-way-at-le-havre\/"},"modified":"2026-08-27T14:05:44","modified_gmt":"2026-08-27T13:05:44","slug":"green-fuel-platform-under-way-at-le-havre","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.portstrategy.com\/greenport\/news\/alternative-fuels-greenport\/green-fuel-platform-under-way-at-le-havre\/","title":{"rendered":"Green fuel platform under way at Le Havre"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Part of the Salamandre and France KerEAUzen projects the work includes the development of the Salamandre plant, said to be the world\u2019s first renewable gas production unit based on pyrogasification and methanation technologies for sea transport.<\/p>\n<p>Engie will also launch the study into the feasibility of producing KerEAUzen, a synthetic fuel that could revolutionise air transport which is made from a combination of renewable hydrogen and CO2.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cSalamandre and France KerEAUzen represent an unparalleled response to the need to decarbonise sea and air transport,\u201d said Catherine MacGregor, chief executive of ENGIE.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThese pioneering industrial units will also contribute to HAROPA PORT\u2019s ambition to make Le Havre a benchmark platform for renewable fuels, as part of a circular economy approach that will benefit regional development.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Engie reports that these projects will address a number of challenges, namely:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Re-industrialising the region and creating the new industrial sectors of the future<\/li>\n<li>Helping to achieve decarbonisation targets in hard-to-abate sectors such as sea and air transport<\/li>\n<li>Contributing to France\u2019s energy goals<\/li>\n<li>Sustainability of the energy transition, based on existing infrastructures, networks, transport, ports and airports<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>HAROPA PORT is a conglomeration of three ports in France \u2013 Le Havre, Rouen and Paris \u2013 to create the Seine Axis Major River and Sea Port. It is the fifth largest port complex in the country.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe are proud to be working with Engie on two emblematic projects, Salamandre and France KerEAUzen, located in Le Havre, on a strategic turnkey site, helping to make the Seine Valley an exemplary region in terms of reindustrialisation, decarbonisation and ecological transition,\u201d said St\u00e9phane Raison, managing director and chair of HAROPA PORT.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Engie is set to develop 24 hectares of land at the Port of Le Havre to create a benchmark platform for alternative fuels.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":3558,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[7,8],"tags":[],"sponsor":[],"class_list":["post-3557","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-alternative-fuels-greenport","category-projects-initiatives-greenport"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.portstrategy.com\/greenport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3557","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.portstrategy.com\/greenport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.portstrategy.com\/greenport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.portstrategy.com\/greenport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/8"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.portstrategy.com\/greenport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3557"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.portstrategy.com\/greenport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3557\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3559,"href":"https:\/\/www.portstrategy.com\/greenport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3557\/revisions\/3559"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.portstrategy.com\/greenport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/3558"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.portstrategy.com\/greenport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3557"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.portstrategy.com\/greenport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3557"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.portstrategy.com\/greenport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3557"},{"taxonomy":"sponsor","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.portstrategy.com\/greenport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/sponsor?post=3557"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}