How can we reduce costs and enhance efficiency in obtaining renewable hydrogen?

Context:

Hydrogen has been used in industrial processes for decades. In the current era of unprecedented industrial transformation, hydrogen remains a crucial element. However, in this transition, renewable hydrogen emerges strongly as an essential energy vector for the decarbonization of industrial sectors such as mobility, steel production, and energy.

This renewable hydrogen can be used as raw material in industry, for heat or electricity generation, and for mobility. Additionally, it can serve as a solution for storing excess renewable energy generated from solar and wind sources.

Opportunity:

Producing, installing, and exploiting renewable hydrogen at a competitive price is a necessity for various industrial sectors, as its widespread use would propel a substantial shift toward a more sustainable future.

In this regard, the development of efficient and effective electrolytic processes capable of generating hydrogen at a competitive price with favorable installation and operational costs will be key to accelerating the integration of these systems. Therefore, it is necessary to implement technologies that propose significant improvements over current commercial technologies at low, medium, or high temperatures.

What we are looking for:

Optimizing hydrogen production while ensuring reliability and competitiveness is key to decarbonizing the industry. This requires flexibility and adaptation to industrial hydrogen use processes, reducing the need for temporary or intermediate storage, as well as validation of new alternative renewable hydrogen production methods for subsequent use as a reducing agent, fuel, raw material for synthetic fuels, or other renewable hydrocarbons.

We are looking for technological solutions for the development of advanced electrolysis processes, as well as options to facilitate the safe transport and storage of hydrogen.