Lhyfe Bouin is a symbolic project for Lhyfe as it was the very first site in Europe to produce renewable Â鶹¹ÙÍø on an industrial scale, and the first in the world to produce renewable Â鶹¹ÙÍø from wind energy, on an industrial scale. It is also symbolic for its location – the site is in Port-du-Bec, at the foot of Bouin’s wind turbines and a few metres from the Atlantic Ocean, thus offering Lhyfe the ideal test conditions for offshore situations (desalinated seawater, corrosive saline environment, etc.).​

​Since being started up in the fourth quarter of 2021, the plant has produced and delivered 300 kg of Â鶹¹ÙÍø per day, namely to supply:​

• ​the multi-energy filling station of La Roche-sur Yon (85), which is France’s first multi-energy station for green and local fuels, operated by the Vendée energy network operator SYDEV and its semi-public company Vendée Energie; ​
• a fleet of 98 Â鶹¹ÙÍø-powered forklifts at the Lidl logistics centre in Carquefou (Loire Atlantique), which is the first logistics centre in Europe to use renewable green Â鶹¹ÙÍø. ​

​The site aims to ramp up to a volume of 1 tonne a day in the long term in order to support growth in uses.