Published the 07/03/2025
Can you please introduce yourself in one sentence?
Hello, I’m Boris, an experienced commercial professional within the energy sector who’s determined to move the dial on climate change.
How would you describe your job at Lhyfe and what do you particularly like about it?
I lead Lhyfe’s sales and development activity in the UK which involves engaging directly with customers wanting to use hydrogen to decarbonise their operation and working with a dynamic team to ensure our production plants are being developed to schedule and within budget. What I love most is being part of a pioneering company in a nascent green industry.
How does your work contribute to reducing CO2 emissions?
The current projects that we are in the advance stages of developing will produce up to 40 tonnes of green hydrogen per day in total. The end use of the hydrogen varies from replacing grey hydrogen (made from natural gas), diesel and natural gas. If that 40 tonnes were to replace grey hydrogen, the amount of CO2 which would be saved every single day would be in the region of 400 tonnes or the same as driving 3.3 million miles in a diesel car.
What is your fondest memory of working at Lhyfe?
My first week at the company, I was taken to our production site at Bouin in Northwestern France. To see actual operators produce green hydrogen and to see actual trucks filled with hydrogen be rolled out to our customers across the region was an inspiration. The company is filled with doers who don’t want to just sit and wait for the market to come but seize the day and start making a difference now.
And finally, why green hydrogen?
Fossil fuels have shaped our world and fuelled our progress but that has come at the price of rising temperatures which is now quickly catching up on us in the form of climate change. I sincerely hope that we can accelerate the pace of clean electrification. However, I do not think it’s possible to electrify every industrial process or replace every vehicle’s internal combustion engine with a battery. We can debate precisely how much hydrogen will be used in future, but one thing is for certain and that is green hydrogen needs to be part of our energy mix if we are to steer clear of the climate change point of no return.