Electrolyzer production
Last month, Enapter (Pisa, Italy; www.enapter.com) broke ground on a new facility in Saerbeck, Germany for mass production of electrolyzers. The 82,000-m2 production facility will boost the company’s production capacity to 10,000 electrolyzers per month. The automated mass-production of electrolyzers will enable Enapter to decrease the cost of the devices and thus quickly make green H2 competitive with fossil fuels, says the company. Development of the machinery necessary for mass production has been supported by the North Rhine-Westphalia Ministry of Economic Affairs, Innovation, Digitalization and Energy with around €9.36 million.
Based on a patented anion-exchange membrane (AEM) technology, the company’s Electrolyser 2.1 has a production capacity of 50 NL/h of H2 with 99.9% purity (99.999% with optional dryer). Up to 70 units can be stacked in a 20-ft container for higher production rates. The new production campus will begin incrementally, starting 4Q 2022, with first customer deliveries anticipated in early 2023. From 2022, Enapter will offer the first megawatt-scale AEM Electrolyzer — the containerized AEM Multicore — featuring 420 of its AEM electrolysis stacks.