Coalition for the Energy of the Future announces seven projects for 2021

In France, the Coalition for the Energy of the Future announced seven projects will be developed in 2021: 

• • Green hydrogen: capitalize on Carrefour projects Cathyope and H2Haul to experiment for the first time in Europe hydrogen-powered fuel cell long distance zero-emission trucks and propose a consolidated order book for goods’ transportation on French and European roads by end of the first semester in order to accelerate hydrogen availability, 
• • Biofuel: propose and test the first bio-crude oil dedicated to maritime needs to increase the use of Biofuel along the supply chain and develop the use of 3rd generation biofuels, 
• • Carbon neutral liquefied natural gas (LNG): draw a pathway for bioLNG toward carbon neutrality, highlighting key issues to be addressed, 
• • Green electricity: identify convert along the global supply chain the key elements (depots, terminals warehouses…) into green self-sustained entities to accelerate the electric conversion in the transport chain, 
• • Zero emission vehicles for road, air and sea transportation: share by the end of the first quarter of 2021 a common vision and roadmap to develop innovative R&D projects around new energies such as Hydrogen or Ammonia, 
• • Digital ecocalculator of the global transport chain: develop a digital eco-calculator certifying door-to-door CO2 impact on any given transportation routing as well as proposing low-emission alternatives, 
• • Intermodal green hubs: propose a business plan to sustain port conversion into new green multimodal hubs using lower-impact routing with greener energy by end of 2021. 

The 14 companies will continue to work closely together over the coming months to develop new concrete projects going further in the fight against climate change. 

In addition, Airbus, Bureau Veritas and PSA International joined the Coalition for the Energy of the Future in 2021, joining existing members AWS, Carrefour, CMA CGM Group, Cluster Maritime Français, Crédit Agricole CIB, ENGIE, Faurecia, Michelin, Schneider Electric, Total and Wärtsilä in the Coalition.