EU plans to increase hydrogen electrolyzer capacity 10-fold by 2025

On June 16, the European Commission launched a plan to increase the EU's green hydrogen electrolyzer production capacity by 10 times by 2025, according to a Moscow report on the NRCHUB website on June 20

The electrolyser partnership, first announced in May this year, will bring together manufacturers and component suppliers to increase the capacity of electrolyzers -- the technology used to produce hydrogen for renewable energy -- from the current estimated annual 1.

The scheme is linked to the European Commission's REPowerEU scheme

Hydrogen is an important part of Europe's future energy sovereignty, the European Commission's executive vice-president responsible for the European Green Deal said in a statement

The Electrolyser Partnership was launched at the European Commission's fourth meeting of the European Clean Hydrogen Alliance, which brings together more than 1,600 organisations to support the deployment of renewable and low-carbon hydrogen

When the new partnership was announced last month, the European Commission and 20 industry executives including Siemens Energy, Nel ASA, SunFire and Cummins said the EU was already a world leader in hydrogen technology, but Its ambition is to transform it into global business leadership

Another member of the partnership, Fryer, chief policy officer at Hydrogen Energy Europe, described it as a "catalyst to advance EU industrial leadership and foster greater collaboration between manufacturers, key material suppliers and policymakers"

"We need to work at a strategic level to ensure that the renewable hydrogen consumed in Europe uses European technology and contributes to a just energy transition that creates job growth in Europe," Fryer said in a statement

　　The European Commission pointed to the availability of cheap raw materials as a challenge for expanding electrolyzer production in Europe

　　At the moment, we are too dependent on certain market areas in countries such as South Africa, Lambert, senior fellow and head of hydrogen research at the Oxford Institute for Energy Research, told the Financial Times London Hydrogen Summit on June 16

　　Electrolyzer manufacturers also see regulatory and financial bottlenecks preventing them from ramping up capacity quickly

　　Speaking at the FT event, the chief executive of Norwegian electrolyser maker Nel said, “We need to see [final investment decisions] start to flow, [and] start making money