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GravitHy

GravitHy ambitionne de décarbonner le secteur de la sidérurgie, en produisant du fer réduit à partir d'hydrogène renouvelable et bas carbone produit par électrolyse, en substitution au charbon traditionnellement utilisé.

Lobbying Activity

Meeting with Aleksandra Kordecka (Cabinet of Executive Vice-President Stéphane Séjourné) and Stegra (formerly H2GS AB) and Hydnum Steel, S.L.

21 Nov 2025 · Industrial Accelerator Act (IAA)– Low carbon steel label – Financial support

Meeting with Kurt Vandenberghe (Director-General Climate Action)

7 Oct 2025 · Hydrogen production, decarbonisation of steel industry, industrial policy and supply chains

Meeting with Peter Van Kemseke (Cabinet of President Ursula von der Leyen)

6 Oct 2025 · to follow

Meeting with Peter Van Kemseke (Cabinet of President Ursula von der Leyen)

6 Oct 2025 · EU framework for industrial decarbonisation, green lead markets and CBAM revisio

Meeting with Koen Van De Casteele (Director Competition), Koen Van De Casteele (Director Competition) and

30 Sept 2025 · Presentation of GravitHy — a company founded in 2022, as an innovative sustainable iron company, with a first flagship plant to be located in Fos-sur-Mer (south of France) to produce hydrogen-based DRI with the idea to sell it to iron-makers.

Response to Adjustment of the obligation to surrender CBAM certificates to take account of ETS free allowances phase-out

24 Sept 2025

GravitHy welcome the Commissions initiative to clarify the implementation rules of the CBAM. For first-of-a-kind industrial projects such as ours, regulatory clarity and predictability are essential to unlock investment and ensure that Europes decarbonization objectives translate into industrial reality. As such, the Commissions two-step approach represents an efficient way to set the framework without having to wait for the revision of the EU-ETS benchmarks for the 2026-2030 period.
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Response to Technical updates of the Emissions Trading Scheme (ETS) State aid guidelines

5 Sept 2025

GravitHy welcomes the opportunity to contribute to the consultation on ICC. As a company developing one of Europes flagship green iron projects, we see ICC as a critical instrument to safeguard industrial competitiveness, secure investment in low-carbon technologies, and strengthen Europes sovereignty. In this response, we outline our key positions: the need to extend ICC beyond 2030, preserve national flexibility in funding, differentiate support according to trade exposure and strategic importance, ensure a smooth coexistence with CBAM until it is fully operational, and maintain the fallback benchmark for hydrogen.
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Meeting with Stéphane Séjourné (Executive Vice-President) and

19 Jun 2025 · • Compétitivité : CID • Échanges sur les Omnibus de Simplification • Échanges sur les futures relations douanières USA – UE • Dialogue stratégique et transport • Plan sur l’acier

Meeting with Miguel Jose Garcia Jones (Cabinet of Commissioner Wopke Hoekstra)

22 Apr 2025 · Discussion on the role of clean steel for the Unions decarbonisation competitiveness.

Meeting with Kurt Vandenberghe (Director-General Climate Action)

4 Feb 2025 · Clean Industrial Deal

Response to Greenhouse gas emissions savings methodology for low-carbon fuels

23 Oct 2024

1. The quick adoption of this delegated act is necessary to provide industrial projects with the legal visibility required to launch investment decisions GravitHy welcomes the swift publication of this draft and supports a quick adoption of the final delegated act. Time is a very scarce resource in our collective race to reach our energy and climate targets for 2030 set in the European Green Deal. Complex industrial projects such as ours require a clear visibility on the legal framework in which they will be operating, with a view to attract investors and lenders, and reach final investment decisions (FID). Considering the permitting and construction time required before entry into operations, these FID must imperatively take place in the next twelve months if we want to be serious about our 2030 targets. 2. Nuclear PPAs must be included in the delegated act from the start, with a view to maintain coherence and balance with the RFNBO DA GravitHy expresses serious concerns about the proposal to postpone in 4 years the potential inclusion of nuclear PPAs. This: - Creates unfair competition between EU industries and other countries such as the US or China which are agnostic on whole technologies and therefore whose industrials will take the first movers advantages and increase the EU industries slowness - Hits the brake on decarbonization and project such like ours that can tackle quickly climate change - Creates unfair competition between EU member states with relative renewables vs nuclear shares in their electricity mix, since it would mean that for at least 4 years, projects using RE PPAs could use a dedicated emissions factor, but those using nuclear PPA could not - Brings considerable uncertainty, thereby endangering the investment decisions of projects such as ours planning to use both renewable and nuclear PPAs to feed our electrolysers We do not see any reason for not including nuclear PPAs in the DA from the start. Data is already available, and similar relevant clauses from the RFNBO DA could be replicated for nuclear PPAs (temporal correlation at hourly interval, geographical correlation at the bidding zone level) The additionality criteria would not make sense for nuclear power, considering the construction time of these assets. However, the risk of excessive consumption for hydrogen production is very low considering that the nuclear PPA market is limited in France at 24 TWh (compared to the 320 TWh produced by nuclear plants every year). 3. The recital 2 provides excessive legal uncertainty on the validation of State aid for industrial projects It is widely recognized that the first generation of H2 production projects will require some form of public support. The purpose of this very DA should be to set the rules regarding GHG accounting for hydrogen production. Yet this recital opens the door to any change decided by the DG COMP in the GHG accounting methodology in the context of State aid, leaving projects with a deep uncertainty over the legal framework which will be applied. For example, with such a recital, a State aid could decide to use a marginalist approach instead, which is clearly incompatible with industrial projects. With this recital, not only industrial projects could not get the public support that they need, but this uncertainty also hinders their ability to attract private investments and increase the projects costs due to the underlying risk.
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Meeting with Maroš Šefčovič (Executive Vice-President) and

22 Mar 2024 · Clean Transition Dialogue with the Steel Sector

Meeting with Margrethe Vestager (Executive Vice-President) and

22 Mar 2024 · Discussion of current challenges facing the European Steel sector attended by private industry as well as Ministers and official representatives of Italy, Romania, Poland, Czechia, Belgium, Hungary and Luxembourg

Meeting with Ditte Juul-Joergensen (Director-General Energy) and BUSINESSEUROPE and

22 Feb 2024 · Energy market

Meeting with Maroš Šefčovič (Executive Vice-President) and

22 Feb 2024 · Clean Transition Dialogue on Clean Technologies