Hydrogen Optimized has signed an MOU with Inexperienced Hydrogen Worldwide (GHI) for the proposed growth of a big electrolyzer manufacturing facility in Texas. The manufacturing unit would produce Hydrogen Optimized’s RuggedCell™ water electrolyzers for GHI’s deliberate 60 GW “Hydrogen Metropolis” inexperienced hydrogen manufacturing and salt cavern storage hub to be in-built South Texas. Manufacturing could be constructed out over a number of years.
Inexperienced Hydrogen Worldwide (GHI) Indicators MOU with Hydrogen Optimized for Proposal to Construct Gigawatt-Scale Water Electrolyzer Manufacturing unit in Texas
Facility will provide GHI’s Hydrogen Metropolis venture in South Texas
AUSTIN, Texas and OWEN SOUND, Ontario (April 27, 2022) – Inexperienced Hydrogen Worldwide (GHI) and Hydrogen Optimized, a subsidiary of Key DH Applied sciences Inc., have signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MOU) for the proposed growth of a big electrolyzer manufacturing facility in Texas. The manufacturing unit will produce Hydrogen Optimized’s RuggedCell™ water electrolyzers for GHI’s deliberate Hydrogen Metropolis venture, a beforehand introduced 60 gigawatt (GW) inexperienced hydrogen manufacturing and salt cavern storage hub to be in-built South Texas.
The proposed RuggedCell™ manufacturing facility shall be constructed out in levels, with an final goal of 5 GW a yr of electrolyzer manufacturing. GHI intends to buy the power’s whole output for the primary 10 years of operation to provide its Hydrogen Metropolis venture. Areas being thought-about for the manufacturing unit embody the Austin, Houston, Dallas, and Corpus Christi areas.
GHI’s plan for gigawatt-scale inexperienced hydrogen manufacturing requires very large-scale water electrolysis expertise. Hydrogen Optimized’s patented high-current RuggedCell™ expertise was designed from first ideas for large-scale hydrogen manufacturing at a considerably decrease capital value. The corporate is focusing on particular person RuggedCell™ installations of 100 MW as a stepping-stone to methods as much as 400 MW. By comparability, most methods obtainable out there immediately can not scale past 20 MW per unit or in lots of instances, 5 MW per unit. Moreover, in contrast to the RuggedCell™, many of those methods use costly iridium, which isn’t obtainable at a quantity required to satisfy multi-gigawatt annual world demand for electrolyzers. One other key benefit of the RuggedCell™ is its dynamic response to variations in electrical present ranges from 0 to 100% energy load in only a few seconds.
“The RuggedCell™ design is the perfect resolution for large-scale hydrogen tasks like Hydrogen Metropolis,” says GHI Founder and CEO Brian Maxwell. “Andrew Stuart and his staff at Hydrogen Optimized have unmatched expertise and expertise experience in inexperienced hydrogen manufacturing, and we’re proud to be working with them to develop the world’s largest inexperienced hydrogen manufacturing and storage hub in Texas.”
International electrolyzer capability is predicted to broaden at a compound annual development fee of 78%, from 0.5 GW in 2022 to 84.7 GW in 2031, in response to a March 2022 report from Guidehouse Insights. This capability is achievable realistically solely by way of the widespread adoption of large-scale electrolysis expertise. GHI anticipates that the corporate alone would require as much as 10 GW/yr of latest manufacturing capability by 2028 for its world operations.
“We look ahead to working with Brian and his staff at GHI in supplying Hydrogen Metropolis with RuggedCell™ electrolyzers,” says Andrew T. B. Stuart, President and CEO of Hydrogen Optimized. “We’re significantly excited to discover GHI’s plan to retailer inexperienced hydrogen in salt caverns, an method that inherently acknowledges the necessity to produce and retailer inexperienced hydrogen on a large scale to unlock a area’s renewable power potential and drive the transition to scrub power.”
“Hydrogen Optimized shares our imaginative and prescient of the function of gigawatt-scale manufacturing as an crucial to satisfy world value and quantity necessities for inexperienced hydrogen, and we’re excited to work with them on scaling up vital electrolyzer manufacturing capability in Texas,” says GHI Board member and former McKinsey & Firm senior associate Andy Steinhubl.
About Inexperienced Hydrogen Worldwide
Based in 2019 by long-time renewable power entrepreneur Brian Maxwell, GHI is the world’s main inexperienced hydrogen growth firm with a world pipeline of large-scale tasks positioned close to low-cost renewable power, salt storage, and huge markets.
The corporate intends to play a number one function within the power transition from a hydrocarbon world to a world powered by sustainable power and inexperienced hydrogen.
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About Hydrogen Optimized
Hydrogen Optimized is a non-public hydrogen expertise firm that develops and commercializes large-scale inexperienced hydrogen manufacturing methods. It’s a part of Key DH Applied sciences Inc., a bunch of innovation-driven companies within the deuterium and hydrogen industries. Hydrogen Optimized allows the conversion of inexperienced electrical energy into inexperienced hydrogen and the transformation of heavy fossil fuel-use industries into sustainability leaders. Our patented high-current RuggedCellTM water electrolysis system integrates a scalable design that is freed from iridium and different costly platinum group metals, and allows low-cost mass manufacturing. It may be scaled up to be used in inexperienced hydrogen crops within the lots of of megawatts which can be focused to main industrial, chemical, utility and power finish customers. Hydrogen Optimized seeks to be the primary water electrolysis firm to provide an mixture of 10 GW of hydrogen manufacturing gear. For extra info on Hydrogen Optimized, please go to www.hydrogenoptimized.com.
