(Reußenköge) – MAN Energy Solutions SE has acquired all remaining shares in H-Tec Systems GmbH from GP Joule GmbH. MAN Energy previously held a 40 percent stake. According to reports, the antitrust authorities have approved the transaction and the transfer of H-Tec Systems to its new parent company is complete. JP Joule had already announced in January 2021 that it would be divesting its stake in the Augsburg-based manufacturer of PEM electrolysis technology "as part of its continued focus on local and regional projects for the production and distribution of sustainable hydrogen."
“Our great strength and our most important future market is and remains the hydrogen project business,” says Ove Petersen, CEO of the GP Joule Group. You “don’t see yourself as a device manufacturer”. GP Joule will continue to use H-Tec System technologies.
A few weeks ago, the eFarm joint project, initiated by GP Joule, handed over two hydrogen-powered buses to Autokraft GmbH, a subsidiary of DB Regio Bus Nord. They will be used in local public transport in North Frisia (as previously reported ). Two hydrogen filling stations in Niebüll and Husum supply the two vehicles. As part of the eFarm project, green electricity from solar and wind power plants is produced at five locations in northern Schleswig-Holstein and converted into green hydrogen in electrolyzers from H-Tec Systems.
H-Tec Systems was founded in 1997. Stacks and electrolyzers in the megawatt class are being built at locations in Bavaria and Schleswig-Holstein, based on the proton exchange membrane process (PEM).
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H-Tec electrolyser / © GP Joule
