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Green renewable hydrogen currently makes up just one percent of the world´s
total industrial and mobility hydrogen consumption. But Nel´s pioneering new
plant at Herøya, which is officially opened today, is at the forefront of the
race to turn one into one hundred. In addition, falling cost of green hydrogen
will unlock new application areas where green hydrogen is the best or only
option for decarbonizing.
The secret is scale-up and automation, which is lowering the unit cost of
electrode production like never before. Nel is on track to make green renewable
hydrogen as cheap, or cheaper, to produce than natural-gas-based hydrogen by
2025.
Nel is reiterating its goal of delivering green hydrogen at $1.5/kg*, and to
achieve this capex must be reduced to a quarter of today’s level.
“Half of the savings we need to make will come from scale-up and increased
efficiency in production. The rest will come from the economy of scale, and from
effective industrial partnerships,” says Jon André Løkke, Nel´s CEO.
“At Herøya we are producing the best alkaline electrolysers in the world. The
next step would be to industrialize our PEM technology in the US in a similar
way,” says Løkke, adding that Nel is also investing a lot of capital in the
development of concepts as large as 800 MW and beyond based on 20, 100, 200 MW
building blocks.
“Our large-scale concepts allow us to optimize the overall capex and realize
synergies to reduce cost”, says Løkke.
Nel has invited customers and partners for the grand opening of the new factory,
and the Norwegian Minister of Energy and Petroleum will give the official
opening speech.
“Nel’s new factory at Herøya is a step in the right direction towards a future
without emissions. In a growing hydrogen market, even more electrolysers are
needed, and it will be a sign of quality that the electrolysers are marked «Made
in Norway»”, says Terje Lien Aasland, Minister of Energy and Petroleum. “Norway
has competitive and competent industrial environments that can contribute to
hydrogen development. Not least at Herøya”
Nel is the leading electrolyser company in the world with a track record of
large-scale projects, making solutions that are bankable with proven performance
guarantees. In fact, the two largest electrolyser plants in Europe are currently
being finalized with Nel’s technology.
This pioneering new plant at Herøya currently has 500 MW of production capacity.
With further investment, this figure can rise to 2 GW, a sizeable portion of the
10 GW of capacity Nel is targeting to reach within 2025, if required by the
market.
The presentations related to the opening event is attached to this release.
- Further details and assumptions can be found in the presentation (slide 4)
For additional information, please contact:
Jon André Løkke, CEO, +47 907 44 949
Kjell Christian Bjørnsen, CFO, +47 917 02?097
About Nel ASA | www.nelhydrogen.com
Nel is a global, dedicated hydrogen company, delivering optimal solutions to
produce, store, and distribute hydrogen from renewable energy. We serve
industries, energy, and gas companies with leading hydrogen technology. Our
roots date back to 1927, and since then, we have had a proud history of
development and continuous improvement of hydrogen technologies. Today, our
solutions cover the entire value chain: from hydrogen production technologies to
hydrogen fueling stations, enabling industries to transition to green hydrogen,
and providing fuel cell electric vehicles with the same fast fueling and long
range as fossil-fueled vehicles - without the emissions.
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