Accelera by Cummins will provide its hydrogen production expertise and technology to a new partnership established with India’s leading natural gas company GAIL.
Under a Memorandum of Understanding (MOU), GAIL will leverage Accelera’s expertise in hydrogen generation technology in India, building on a previous partnership between the two firms.
Together, Accelera and GAIL plan to explore opportunities in hydrogen production, blending, transportation and storage, and will also evaluate and develop projects for hydrogen applications across the transport, power and steel sectors.
Furthermore, with GAIL’s input, they will focus on sharing knowledge on hydrogen blending with natural gas.
“Accelera’s collaboration with a partner like GAIL demonstrates the potential of green hydrogen and the capability of large-scale electrolysis,” explained Alex Savelli, Global Commercial Leader for electrolysers at Accelera.
“By combining our advanced electrolyser technology with GAIL’s extensive energy infrastructure and leading market presence, we are well positioned to accelerate the adoption of green hydrogen across India.”
Last December, GAIL commissioned its green hydrogen plant in Vijaipur, Madhya Pradesh, featuring Accelera’s 10MW PEM electrolyser system.
They supplied two Accelera HyLYZER units, enabling the production of 4.3 tonnes of green hydrogen per day, which is blended with natural gas to power GAIL’s on-site operations.
Building upon the successful implementation of the Vijaipur project, Rajeev Kumar Singhal, Director of Business Development at GAIL, said, “We will work towards developing a robust hydrogen value chain that supports India’s ambitious goal of producing five million tonnes of green hydrogen annually by 2030.”
Last month (February), Cummins announced that it had taken a $312m hit in its Q4 2024 results. The engine manufacturer said it had conducted a strategic review of its Accelera segment as a result, implementing “certain manufacturing efforts.”
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However, the firm did not say which parts of Accelera will be impacted by the cuts.
Accelera electrolyser boss: fix policy and offtake hurdles to make green hydrogen meaningful
For green hydrogen to scale meaningfully, projects must move beyond small pilots, mandates must be properly accounted for, and policy constraints must be eased, Accelera by Cummins’ electrolyser boss has told H2 View.
For an electrolyser maker like Accelera, which rapidly expanded its manufacturing capacities to meet such demand at the call of European policymakers, Lippert says the industry now needs guide rails to scale real-world developments.
Since 2022, Accelera and Cummins have been working on building 3GW of electrolyser-making capacity across Europe, the US and China. However, without revealing any specific changes to capacity, Accelera said it was consolidating “certain manufacturing efforts” across its cleantech portfolio amid slowing demand.
“The EU focused a lot on electrolyser manufacturing capacity,” Lippert said. “We’ve extended that. [The industry has] way exceeded what the demand is.”
In his view, this means reducing constraints on electrolyser operations and ensuring green hydrogen consumption is properly accounted for in mandated industries.
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