Danish engineering firm Haldor Topsoe will build a solid oxide electrolyser (SOEC) manufacturing facility with a total capacity of 500MW per year to accommodate the “rapidly increasing” demand for “competitive” electrolysis technology.

Construction is expected to commence in 2022 and the facility, which could be expanded from 500MW to 5GW per year, is expected to be operational by 2023.

Roeland Baan, CEO of Haldor Topsoe, said the new manufacturing facility is a “concrete step” in the company taking a leading role in the ongoing energy transition towards a low carbon future.

“We strongly believe that one of the most viable routes to this goal lies in the efficient utilisation of renewable electricity to produce green hydrogen, fuels, and chemicals,” Baan said.

“With Topsoe’s SOEC electrolyser, more than 90% of the renewable electricity that enters the electrolyser is preserved in the green hydrogen it produces. This is significantly more efficient than the other available technologies in the market.”

Baan added, “Topsoe already has a number of technologies and several others under development that will ensure that the company will play a leading role in the energy transition, reducing carbon emissions world-wide.”

“The decision to build this large-scale production of our SOEC technology shows that we are willing and able to translate our ambition into reality.”

Topsoe is already engaged in several projects to produce green hydrogen, green ammonia, green methanol and green fuels.

An example is the Helios project in NEOM, Saudi Arabia, announced in July 2020, which includes the world’s largest ammonia loop delivered by Topsoe.

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