One team owns the block.
BaseBlue Power is an HDF Energy project. HDF Energy manufactures its own high-power fuel cell systems and integrates them into MW-scale power blocks — design, assembly, testing, commissioning and operator training, all under one roof.
The factory
An industrial line, not a workshop.
HDF Energy’s fuel cell assembly plant in France is a purpose-built industrial facility with nine assembly lines running in parallel. A unit takes an average of a month and a half to build, which is what sets the rhythm of a delivery schedule.
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100MW
Annual fuel cell production capacity today
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9
Assembly lines, at an average production cycle of 1.5 months per unit
Manufacturer, not assembler
HDF Energy designs and manufactures the high-power fuel cell systems itself, then integrates them into containerized power blocks of 1 to 1.5 MW.
Mature stacks
Latest-generation automotive PEM stacks at TRL 9 — a technology readiness level that means proven in operation, not proven in a lab.
Backed by public industrial funding
€168 M of IPCEI funding from the European Union and the French State, to accelerate the industrialization of HDF’s high-power fuel cells.
Scaling capacity
The line is designed to grow tenfold.
The plant runs at 100 MW a year today and is designed for a ramp-up towards GW-scale manufacturing by 2030. That ramp is a design capability, conditional on market demand rather than committed volume.
On-site testing centre
Every block is run before it ships.
The factory has its own fuel cell testing centre. It reproduces real-life operating conditions to validate robustness, safety and performance — so the first time a block sees a duty cycle is not on your site.
Testing centre
- Simultaneous units
- 2 × 1.5 MW
- Mode
- Fully automated
- Validates
- Robustness, safety, performance
Engineering and commissioning
The scope does not stop at the loading bay.
HDF’s fuel cell engineering services run from the process drawings through to handing a running plant to the people who will operate it. The same team that designed the block signs off its performance on site.
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The sequence
The overall pre-commissioning and commissioning sequence, factory and site, with supervision and definition of the pre-commissioning tests.
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Execution
Planning and execution of commissioning with HDF and its suppliers, and coordination of the punch list from the supplier factories through to plant start-up.
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Acceptance and handover
Validation of contractual performance, issuance of the provisional acceptance certificate, complete as-built documentation, and start-up and training of the future operators.
In the United States
American integration partner.
A Houston-based local integrator, working with HDF Energy to scale deployment in the United States.
- Eligible equipmentThe fuel cell equipment is eligible for a 30 % investment tax credit under section 48E, supported by a bankable project finance framework and a long-term service agreement.