Located in the airport zone and close to major roads, the HYPORT station at Toulouse-Blagnac airport is the first green hydrogen production station on this scale in Occitanie.

With a production capacity of over 400 kg of green hydrogen per day, equivalent to 1 MW of high-power electrolysis, the station can fuel around 20 buses or 200 light vehicles per day. The on-site electrolyser is supplied with 100% renewable and local electricity from the green power purchase agreement linking ENGIE group to the Fanjeaux photovoltaic farm (in the Aude) and hydropower dams in the Pyrenees. The station can be used not only for mobility, but also for industrial and logistics purposes.

This hydrogen hub comprises a station equipped with two distribution terminals, one landside and one on the apron, to supply light vehicles and hydrogen buses carrying passengers to and from aircraft and car parks. The HYPORT station can be used to refuel pushback tractors, generators that supply aircraft with electricity when they are on stand, along with lorries and coaches.

The site also includes an export zone, enabling potential surplus renewable hydrogen to be used for special events (generators), to decarbonise industrial processes, or to produce e-kerosene. The same zone can be used to import hydrogen during any peaks in consumption.

Dedicated to developing the use of hydrogen as a sustainable alternative fuel, HYPORT designs and manages complete green hydrogen solutions, from production to distribution. The HYPORT station is the result of bringing together all the regional and national industrial and institutional players involved in the energy transition:

• The Occitanie regional energy and climate agency (AREC),

• The ENGIE Solutions teams, who put all their expertise into building the alternative fuel refuelling station,

• Toulouse-Blagnac airport, committed to “zero carbon emissions” by 2050 under the ACI Europe Net Zero programme,

• SAFRA, the designer and manufacturer of the 5 shuttles now operating on the airport apron,

• Transdev, operator of the Toulouse-Blagnac airport bus,

• Airbus, which supports the development of hydrogen hubs at airports.

HYPORT has forged 100% regional partnerships with local manufacturers, while encouraging other economic players to convert their fleets to hydrogen, a major alternative fuel. Lastly, the project is supported by the French agency for ecological transition ADEME, the Occitanie Region, and the JIVE 2 project co-funded by the European Union Fuel Cells and Hydrogen Joint Undertaking.

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