{"id":921,"date":"2020-11-17T16:48:09","date_gmt":"2020-11-17T03:48:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.otago.ac.nz\/brooker\/?page_id=921"},"modified":"2023-04-04T11:58:52","modified_gmt":"2023-04-03T23:58:52","slug":"h2-electrolysers-round-the-world","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/blogs.otago.ac.nz\/brooker\/h2-electrolysers-round-the-world\/","title":{"rendered":"Green H2 production \u2013 electrolysers"},"content":{"rendered":"<ul>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.bspkl.co\/\"><strong>Bspkl<\/strong><\/a>, <strong>GNS Science&#8217;s<\/strong> first spin-out company, has raised $2.5m in seed funding to develop and scale up their Catalyst Coated Membrane (CCM) technology. CCM significantly reduces the amount of catalyst (eg Platinum) required for electrolysers to generate hydrogen, and Bspkl have plans to expand this tech to related systems such as fuel cells (<a href=\"https:\/\/www.nbr.co.nz\/tech\/first-gns-spin-out-raises-2-5m-in-seed-round\/\">NBR<\/a> and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.gns.cri.nz\/news\/bspkl\/\">GNS<\/a> 3 April 2023)<\/li>\n<li><strong>Fabrum<\/strong> has received an order from <strong>Obayashi Corporation <\/strong>for a 1 MW MFE220 electrolyser, Fabrum&#8217;s first order under their manufacturing agreement with <strong>CPH2<\/strong>, with delivery expected in a bit over a year (<a href=\"https:\/\/www.cph2.com\/news\/cph2-s-manufacturing-partner-receives-first-order-for-mfe220\/\">CPH2<\/a> 27 Mar 2023)<\/li>\n<li><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/fabrum.nz\/\">Fabrum<\/a> <\/strong>have expanded their relationship with <a href=\"https:\/\/www.cph2.com\/\"><strong>CPH2<\/strong> <\/a>to allow Fabrum to manufacture Membrane-Free Electrolysers (MFEs) in Christchurch, NZ (<a href=\"https:\/\/fabrum.nz\/fabrum-enters-a-manufacturing-agreement-with-cph2\/\">Fabrum<\/a> 1 Feb 2023, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.cph2.com\/news\/cph2-signs-manufacturing-agreement-with-fabrum-solutions\/\">CPH2<\/a> 31 Jan 2023).\u00a0<strong>Fabrum\u00a0<\/strong>also announced they&#8217;ve raised $23M in funding to advance hydrogen technologies (<a href=\"https:\/\/fabrum.nz\/fabrum-raises-23m-series-a-from-global-giants-to-advance-hydrogen-technologies-to-decarbonise-the-economy\/\">Fabrum<\/a> 8 Feb 2023)<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.airliquide.com\/group\/press-releases-news\/2022-06-23\/air-liquide-and-siemens-energy-form-joint-venture-european-production-large-scale-renewable-hydrogen\">Air Liquide<\/a> (25.1%) and <a href=\"https:\/\/press.siemens-energy.com\/global\/en\/pressrelease\/siemens-energy-and-air-liquide-form-joint-venture-european-production-large-scale\">Siemens Energy<\/a> (74.9%) join forces to accelerate <strong>large scale production of electrolysers<\/strong>, HQ and factory in Berlin, starting production in 2nd half of 2023, and ramping up to <strong>3 GW pa by 2025<\/strong> (23 June 2022)<\/li>\n<li>USA $504.4 million in debt financing from the Energy Department for <strong>220 MW of<\/strong> <strong>electrolysers<\/strong> using excess solar and wind, with <strong>H2 storage in cavern<\/strong>, in Utah (Bloomberg, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bloomberg.com\/news\/articles\/2022-04-26\/u-s-earmarks-504-million-to-back-world-s-largest-hydrogen-hub\">27Apr2022<\/a>). Aim is to provide 300 GWh of clean energy to the region each year.<\/li>\n<li><strong>HyDeal Espana<\/strong> massive<a href=\"https:\/\/www.rechargenews.com\/energy-transition\/-green-hydrogen-is-now-competitive-with-fossil-fuels-arcelormittal-among-offtakers-at-massive-7-4gw-project-in-spain\/2-1-1169455\"> 7.4GW green H2<\/a> from 9.5GW solar, with <strong>steel<\/strong> maker ArcelorMittal and <strong>fertiliser<\/strong> producer Fertiberia amongst the developers. Will supply 330,000 (200,000 by 2026) tonnes H2 pa to industrial hub in northern <strong>Spain<\/strong> (Asturias). 16Feb2022<\/li>\n<li>Plans for green <strong>hydrogen port<\/strong>, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.erneuerbare-energien-hamburg.de\/en\/news\/details\/geesthacht-hydrogen-port-and-filling-station-planned.html\">Geesthacht<\/a> Hamburg<\/li>\n<li><strong>Australia<\/strong>, in a world-first as part of the Hydrogen Energy Supply Chain (HESC) project, is exporting a shipment of liquid H<sub>2<\/sub> to Japan aboard the Suiso Frontier (<a href=\"https:\/\/www.minister.industry.gov.au\/ministers\/taylor\/media-releases\/hydrogen-industry-marks-milestone-first-shipment-liquid-hydrogen-japan\">Media Release, 21 January 2022<\/a>). Note hydrogen is to be produced in the state of Victoria from local LaTrobe brown coal, with the associated CO2 emissions to be captured and stored in CarbonNet&#8217;s offshore reservoir in Gippsland.<\/li>\n<li>H2 generation on <strong>offshore wind<\/strong> turbine platforms, Strohm and Siemens Gamesa, Denmark (<a href=\"https:\/\/cleantechnica.com\/2021\/12\/09\/love-blooms-when-green-hydrogen-meets-offshore-wind-turbines\/\">9Dec2021<\/a>)<\/li>\n<li><strong>Norway<\/strong> Hydrogen Pro (acquired Danish company Advanced Surface Plating in Dec 2020) has just built a factory near Aarhus in Denmark, that has the capacity to produce sufficient <strong>electrodes for 100 MW<\/strong> of green hydrogen production (Energy Watch <a href=\"https:\/\/energywatch.eu\/EnergyNews\/Cleantech\/article13283507.ece\">15 Sept 2021<\/a>)<\/li>\n<li>UK &#8211; Oxford University researchers show its possible to turn <a href=\"https:\/\/www.ox.ac.uk\/news\/2020-10-13-turning-plastic-waste-hydrogen-and-high-value-carbons\">plastic waste in H2<\/a>, apparently with no CO2 emitted (March 2021).<\/li>\n<li>Norway: <a href=\"https:\/\/nelhydrogen.com\/\">https:\/\/nelhydrogen.com\/<\/a><\/li>\n<li>Austria:\u00a0 <a href=\"https:\/\/www.h2future-project.eu\/news\">https:\/\/www.h2future-project.eu\/news<\/a><\/li>\n<li>Fukushima (FH2R): <a href=\"https:\/\/www.rechargenews.com\/transition\/japan-opens-worlds-largest-green-hydrogen-plant-near-fukushima-disaster-site\/2-1-769361\">https:\/\/www.rechargenews.com\/transition\/japan-opens-worlds-largest-green-hydrogen-plant-near-fukushima-disaster-site\/2-1-769361<\/a><\/li>\n<li>Germany (Wesseling; REFHYNE): <a href=\"https:\/\/www.in4climate.nrw\/en\/best-practice\/projekte\/2019\/translate-to-englisch-refhyne\/\">https:\/\/www.in4climate.nrw\/en\/best-practice\/projekte\/2019\/translate-to-englisch-refhyne\/<\/a><\/li>\n<li>Germany (WestKuste): <a href=\"https:\/\/www.rechargenews.com\/transition\/offshore-wind-to-power-giant-green-hydrogen-carbon-neutral-aviation-fuel-plant\/2-1-696907\">https:\/\/www.rechargenews.com\/transition\/offshore-wind-to-power-giant-green-hydrogen-carbon-neutral-aviation-fuel-plant\/2-1-696907<\/a>\n<ul>\n<li>And <a href=\"https:\/\/www.westkueste100.de\/en\/\">https:\/\/www.westkueste100.de\/en\/<\/a>, also: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.new4-0.de\/\">https:\/\/www.new4-0.de\/<\/a> and in<a href=\"https:\/\/bioenergyinternational.com\/heat-power\/westkuste-100-renewable-hydrogen-project-secures-eur-30-million-in-funding\"> Aug 2020<\/a>.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<li>Germany <a href=\"https:\/\/www.hannovermesse.de\/en\/news\/news-articles\/hamburg-to-build-worlds-largest-hydrogen-electrolysis-plant\">(Hamburg<\/a>)<\/li>\n<li>Germany (Siemens; Wunsiedel):\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/press.siemens.com\/global\/en\/pressrelease\/siemens-build-large-co2-free-hydrogen-production-plant-bavaria\">https:\/\/press.siemens.com\/global\/en\/pressrelease\/siemens-build-large-co2-free-hydrogen-production-plant-bavaria<\/a><\/li>\n<li>Australia (Adelaide) solar and wind energy used to power a <strong>1.25 MW electrolyser<\/strong>, currently the biggest operating in Australia (<a href=\"https:\/\/www.nasdaq.com\/articles\/australia-starts-piping-hydrogen-gas-blend-into-homes-2021-05-19\">May 2021<\/a>). Australian government is also supporting 3 x 10MW electrolysers elsewhere.<\/li>\n<li>Australia-Japan plan to use <a href=\"https:\/\/www.hydrogenfuelnews.com\/brown-coal-to-hydrogen\/8543785\/\">brown coal to make H2<\/a>, in Victoria, cool it to a liquid (1\/800th original volume), then ship it to Japan on the first liquid H2 carrier, Suiso Frontier (Kawasaki Heavy Industries Ltd). No comment on how &#8216;green&#8217; the process might be&#8230;. (March 2021)<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.rechargenews.com\/solar\/european-group-aims-to-use-95gw-of-solar-to-push-green-h2-price-to-fossil-fuel-level\/2-1-962865\">HyDeal Ambition<\/a> aims to use <strong>95GW solar<\/strong> to do <strong>67GW<\/strong> electrolysis delivering <strong>3.6 million tonnes of green H2 pa<\/strong> by 2030. Team involves Spain, Italy, France and Germany (15Feb2021)<\/li>\n<li>Australia (<a class=\"u-underline in-body-link--immersive\" href=\"https:\/\/asianrehub.com\/\">Asian Renewable Energy Hub).<\/a>\u00a0Plan is to install 1,600 wind turbines and a 78 sq km array of solar panels (solar-wind hybrid = 26 GW) in the Pilbara near Port Hedland, to run <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/environment\/2020\/nov\/14\/green-giants-the-massive-projects-that-could-make-australia-a-clean-energy-superpower?CMP=share_btn_link\">14 GW of electrolysers to make green H2 from desalinated seawater<\/a>.<\/li>\n<li>Australia (LAVO\/UNSW). <a href=\"https:\/\/reneweconomy.com.au\/australian-invented-hydrogen-storage-for-homes-and-businesses-hits-the-market-14324\/\">Household electrolysers<\/a> for storing renewable energy.<\/li>\n<li>Australia (Siemens): <a href=\"https:\/\/www.afr.com\/companies\/energy\/siemens-has-hydrogen-hopes-for-powering-asia-20191008-p52yng\">https:\/\/www.afr.com\/companies\/energy\/siemens-has-hydrogen-hopes-for-powering-asia-20191008-p52yng<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Bspkl, GNS Science&#8217;s first spin-out company, has raised $2.5m in seed funding to develop and scale up their Catalyst Coated Membrane (CCM) technology. 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