(Oslo / Heroya) – Norwegian electrolyser manufacturer Nel ASA has opened its fully automated production facility in Herøya. The capacity is currently 500 megawatts. 
With further investments, this could initially be expanded to two gigawatts and, if necessary, to ten gigawatts by 2025. The plant is said to achieve 20 times the output of Nel's previous manually operated plant in Notodden. An electrolyzer test center is now being built there.
Nel is “on track to produce green hydrogen as cheaply or cheaper than natural gas-based hydrogen by 2025,” it said in a statement. The company had already announced in January 2021 the goal of supplying green hydrogen at a price of 2025 dollars (1,50 euros) per kilogram by 1,39. To achieve this, investment costs would have to be reduced to a quarter of their current level. “Half of the savings will come from scale-up and increased efficiency in production,” says Nel managing director Jon André Løkke. The rest comes from the advantages of production scale and industrial partnerships.
Scalable performance
Løkke sees the next logical step in the industrialization of Nel-PEM technology in the USA. A lot of money is already being invested in the development of electrolyzers with an output of 800 megawatts and beyond. These were based on modularly expandable blocks with outputs of 20, 100 and 200 megawatts.
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Nel has put a new electrolyzer production into operation. © Nel ASA
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According to the company, the automation means the output is 20 times higher than the previous production line. © Nel ASA
