The IPCEI (Important Project of Common European Interest) on Hydrogen was launched in 2020 to promote the market ramp-up of green hydrogen. In the course of this project 23 EU Member States as well as Norway collaborate to interlink European hydrogen projects and to benefit from spill-over effects at a European level. In the meantime, four IPCEI Hydrogen “waves” with 18 involved countries have been registered at the EU level. 1.4 billion EUR from the RRF support 14 of the overall 31 projects in Germany.
The German plan supports integrated hydrogen projects along the entire value chain. The measure is articulated around production, transport and storage of hydrogen, as well as on hydrogen applications (in industry and mobility). New electrolysis capability is being built to produce renewable hydrogen in locations where sufficient renewable electricity is available.
Sunfire is a global leader in the production of industrial electrolyzers based on pressurized alkaline and solid oxide (SOEC) technologies. With its electrolysis solutions, Sunfire is addressing a key challenge of today’s energy system: providing renewable hydrogen and Syngas as climate-neutral substitutes for fossil energy. Sunfire’s innovative and proven electrolysis technologies enable the transformation of carbon intensive industries that are currently dependent on fossil-based oil, gas, or coal. The company employs more than 550 people located in Germany and Switzerland.
With the IPCEI project "Sunfire 1500+", Sunfire targets the industrialisation (FID) of Sunfire's alkali electrolyser (AEL) an high temperature electrolyser (SOEC) technology. With the focus on FID, a production landscape for the industrial manufacturing of AEL and SOEC electrolyzers will be established, commissioned and validated. The factories are to provide future production capacities of 500 MW/a (SOEC) and 1 GW/a (AEL). In addition to industrialisation, "Sunfire1500+" also addresses important development tasks that are necessary for scaling. All R&D&I work is carried out according to the design-to-cost and design-to-manufacturing approach. The specific added value of "Sunfire 1500+" for the IPCEI on Hydrogen Technology is the industrialisation of the highly innovative and efficient SOEC technology, in which Sunfire is one of the key global technology leaders, and the industrialisation of the cost-effective and proven pressurised alkali technology.
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