Bzero, the hydrogen plant developed by Baglietto, has been operational since the beginning of July.

The green hydrogen plant developed by Baglietto and will be fully operational from the beginning of July. officially presented by the La Spezia shipyard in April 2023.

Diego Michele Deprati announced it in an interview with lastampa.it  explaining that, initially, the system installed at the La Spezia plant will be used on an experimental basis on land, but that in the future "it will equip its vessels over 50 meters with a kit that includes a 200-kilowatt fuel cell and which will be capable of producing energy on board in a hybrid system."

Deprati reiterated on the occasion that Baglietto does not consider hydrogen, in the short term, to be the only possible energy source, but believes it could be part of the group of currently available energy sources, ranging from batteries to photovoltaics to generators with SCR technology, biodiesel, and others.

At this stage, the shipyard—as Baglietto's CEO informed—is interested in achieving safe onboard hydrogen storage; for this reason, it has planned a storage system of approximately 100 kg, which will be installed, along with the 200-kilowatt fuel cell, as part of an onboard hybrid energy generation system on a 60-meter hybrid superyacht currently under construction and expected to be ready by the first half of 2028.

The Bzero plant in La Spezia will also be used to store the excess energy currently produced by the photovoltaic panels installed on the construction site's roofs, converting it into hydrogen. In the future, it will also function as a refueling station, with the hydrogen safely stored at a pressure of 30 atmospheres, "which could also perhaps await the establishment of a local distribution network."

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Baglietto presented the BZero prototype powered by green hydrogen