Energy Observer strengthens its partners’ ecosystem for the next 3 years of its Odyssey around the world, with the arrival of GUYOT environnement and Qair.
Energy Observer is a multi-partner project that gathers companies involved in all sectors of the eco-energy transition. Among the Odyssey’s new supporters: Qair, an independent producer of renewable energy, and GUYOT environnement, a regional leader in waste recovery in Brittany.
That is the strength of this technological, innovative, and human project: cooperating with players who act on all the vectors of the ecological and energy transition, with a wide range of skills, which include hydrogen, green financing, climate risk insurance, hospitality, training for the professions of tomorrow, sustainable mobility, software intelligence, the circular economy, renewable energies, etc.
After the reinforcement of the partnership with Air Liquide, the arrival of the BPCE Group, then of Triangle intérim, the project federates new actors with GUYOT environnement and Qair, respectively partners and official patrons.
These partners will support the continuance of the Odyssey until 2024 and will partake in the awareness and acculturation actions around new energies led by the Energy Observer Foundation.
Qair, Official “Renewable Energy” Partner of Energy Observer
Energy Observer is a flagship of future smart-grids, developing an optimized energy mix that mobilizes solar, wind, and hydro-generation. In each of these fields, the laboratory vessel undertakes, develops, optimizes, and assembles the world’s most efficient features. It then stores its energy production in batteries, but most importantly, in a complete renewable hydrogen system produced from the electrolysis of seawater.
Qair is an independent renewable energy producer with 1GW of assets in operation and under construction. The company develops onshore and offshore wind, solar, hydroelectric, and green hydrogen projects on its account in Europe, Brazil, Africa, and Asia.
Thus, the partnership with Qair, an agile, international, and versatile actor, particularly resonates with the concerns of Energy Observer. Qair will fetch its international and multi-local vision of specific territories with varied resources to the project, but also its expertise in the development of responsible energy production ecosystems.
By deploying installations mixing several sources of renewable energy, Qair deploys on a large scale the innovations that Energy Observer experiments at sea.
Challenges of the marine environment are at the heart of the concerns of Qair, a pioneer in floating wind power, winner in 2022 in Scotland of 2GW of offshore wind power, a candidate in the tender for offshore wind power in Southern Brittany, and developer of a tidal turbine pilot project in Raz Blanchard.
This partnership is thus in line with the actions of studying and preserving the marine environment carried out by the Qair group, which is why the enterprise decided to support this initiative aimed at decarbonization and preservation of the oceans.
GUYOT environnement, Official “Circular Economy” Partner of Energy Observer
As a refitted racing catamaran, launched in 1983 and recycled in 2016, Energy Observer could not have dreamed of anything better than to be associated with an innovative player in the circular economy, committed to the energy transition! For more than thirty years, GUYOT environnement has placed the environment at the heart of its strategy by doing everything possible to provide alternative solutions to the use of fossil fuels.
It transforms non-recyclable waste into fuel, to provide alternative solutions to the use of fossil fuels. Tomorrow, they will produce energy to be autonomous. Energy autonomy is a key goal of Energy Observer: to consume only what we can produce, to reach maximum efficiency, and thus to gain our energetic independence.
As the regional and independent leader in the recovery of waste and materials, the Brittany company is more than ever asserting its leading role as a developer of resources. With 16 sites in Brittany and Spain, 400 employees with expertise in the environmental sector, 800,000 tons of waste recovered in 2021, and a turnover of 260 million euros, GUYOT environnement is a key partner for Brittany, and its local actors, to meet the major environmental challenges of tomorrow.
Last but not least, GUYOT environnement wants to decarbonize the transport of its recycled materials, especially from the Port of Brest, where the One Ocean Summit will take place next week. An opportunity for Energy Observer to present a zero-emission cargo ship with breakthrough technologies.
Exploring positive energies in France and around the world, Energy Observer is delighted to welcome onboard a partnership that enriches the skills of its partners, but also its values and actions in favor of the transition.
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