Hydrogen is emerging as one of the most promising solutions for decarbonization. As a pioneering investment player and asset manager, we unite key industrial and financial stakeholders committed to the energy transition. Our investors and partners trust us to identify and support the most promising projects with the potential for scale-up, industrialization, and profitability.
Scaling up the hydrogen industry
Financing the hydrogen economy: our co-founder and CEO Pierre-Etienne Franc shares his view from the heart of global finance in New York City.
The energy transition faces major technological challenges, but its main obstacle lies in financing: hundreds of trillions of dollars are needed over the next three decades to facilitate the transition from a fossil fuel economy to a low-carbon society. By investing across the clean hydrogen value chain, we are helping to bring to scale a key industry for the decarbonization of our economy.
Supporting the most promising entrepreneurs
Throughout the world, we support the developers of hydrogen projects and equipment providers that are most advanced in the value chain, and offer the greatest potential for industrialization.
They are developing long-term upstream or downstream projects to produce low-carbon hydrogen and its derivatives from renewable energies, to transport, to distribute or to serve transport and mobility markets. Their teams' commitment, expertise and experience are among the most solid in the world. Their sites foreshadow the energy system of tomorrow: low-carbon, decentralized and more sovereign.
We have brought together an unprecedented ecosystem of over 50 leading industrial and financial players, all committed to supporting the advent of the low-carbon hydrogen economy.
We created Hy24 to act as a catalyst within an ecosystem that we are helping to build and structure. Our teams bring together the best of experience and expertise in asset management, infrastructure, and private equity on the one hand, and in-depth knowledge of the hydrogen industry and project start-ups on the other. In addition to our ability to analyze the market and manage industrial projects, we have a thorough understanding of regulatory developments and public support policies for the industry. Through our funds, we bring together an ecosystem of industrial and financial leaders who are committed to significantly advancing the hydrogen agenda, an energy carrier that will account for 15-20% of final energy demand by 2050. Backed by the confidence of our investors and partners around the world, we are also committed to cooperation and dialogue with public-sector players, in order to promote hydrogen's ambitions at national, European and international levels, to help meet the objectives of the Paris agreements.
Our values
We are guided in our actions and performance ambitions by the values of boldness, agility, loyalty, and excellence. To be bold is to dare take a measured risk in the name of a vision that drives us. While the reckless takes all the risks, the bold only takes those that help him reach his ideal.
Audacity
Through our audacity, independence of judgment and freedom we are transforming the usual ways of doing and thinking.
Agility
Our agility enables us to combine a long-term vision with everyday flexibility.
Loyalty
Loyalty to our teams, our investors, our shareholders, our mission, is a relational cement that will allow us to cultivate our passion over time.
Excellence
We are committed to combining operational, financial, environmental, and social excellence.
Responsibility-Driven Action
At Hy24, we uphold the highest standards of financial, environmental, and social performance. Our funds are compliant with Article 9 of the SFDR, ensuring all investments are sustainable. These standards are also integral to our own governance practices. We embrace this principle in our daily activities as a team. More than a requirement, it's our philosophy.