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Ginger BURGEAP continues its support to the ESA for the HYGUANE project

On 1 February in Issy-les-Moulineaux, the European Space Agency (ESA) and Ginger BURGEAP signed the project management contract for phase 2 of the HYGUANE project.

For the past 3 years, the Ginger BURGEAP teams have been supporting the ESA in its ambitious programme to create a green hydrogen production facility for the Guiana Space Centre (CSG) in Kourou and for Ariane 6 in particular, and to set up a regional network with a compression station, a fuelling station for coaches and professional vehicles (LCVs and HGVs), and a maintenance and expertise centre for H2 mobility.

This work culminated on 13 December 2023 in the signing of the consortium agreement by all the project partners, which in addition to ESA and CNES include Air Liquide, ADEME (the French Ecological Transition Agency) and industrial players from the aerospace sector. The project represents an investment of over €40m (co-financed by ESA, ADEME and the industrial partners), and will produce green hydrogen for Ariane 6 and local mobility by mid-2026, for a period of 20 years, using 4 vehicles financed as part of the first phase of HYGUANE.

The contract signed on 1 February 2024 between Ginger BURGEAP and the ESA provides for the continuation of the support work for all actors in 2024, with two people in French Guiana to be close to those on the ground and technical expertise from the Energy Decarbonisation and Development project team and Ginger's STRATEM strategic consultancy centre. The Ginger BURGEAP team's mission goes beyond HYGUANE to include support for the development and implementation of certain decarbonisation programmes at CSG.

This contract, which follows on from those already carried out in 2021, 2022 and 2023, is a vote of confidence and recognition of the quality of Ginger BURGEAP's work and its ability to develop innovative and strategic areas. We would like to extend our warmest thanks to ESA and to Caroline Cros in particular (Head of Range & CSG Representation Division) and Teddy Peponnet (ESA HYGUANE Project Leader & Infrastructure Project Manager at CSG) for their confidence. 

The work has only just begun to ensure that in 2026, we will see the first Ariane 6 rocket powered by low-carbon hydrogen.

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