Hystar AS has agreed to supply PEM electrolyser stacks to South Korea’s Sunbo Unitech for a hydrogen production project in Boryeong.
While details on the initiative are thin, Hystar’s press release explains that the stacks will be integrated into the company’s balance of plant system, and, after final commissioning, the system will be handed over to KOMIPO’s Shin Boryeong power station.
The hydrogen produced will be used to refuel fuel cell electric vehicles (FCEVs), including buses, to support a transition to sustainable transport in the region.
“We are excited to close another contract in South Korea,” Fredrik Mowill, CEO of Hystar, said. “We look forward to working with Sunbo to successfully deploy Hystar electrolyser stacks in their Boryeong project.”
H2 View contacted Hystar for further details on the project, but the company declined to provide additional information.
Sunbo Unitech, a Korean engineering firm based in Busan, specialises in energy solutions, such as hydrogen production technologies.
In March 2023, the company reportedly constructed Korea’s first 300kW green hydrogen plant, which used PEM electrolyser equipment to convert wind-generated power from Jeju Island’s Haengwon wind farm into hydrogen.
Game-changing electrolyser technology – An interview with Hystar
Fredrik Mowill’s entry to the electrolyser game with Hystar was one of not only savvy investment decision, but also out of passion. Having been at the helm of the Netherlands-based Opra Turbines alongside his family, he oversaw the development of a new, efficient, low-emission, multi-fuel turbine technology. With Opra carrying out extensive work within hydrogen, Mowill and his family sold the business in 2017, seeing him move back to his native Norway.
“I decided early on that my next business venture would be within the hydrogen space. So, I looked around both from an investment point of view, but also in terms of what I should spend my own time on in the future,” Mowill, CEO of Hystar said to H2 View.
Following a short break from the business world, Mowill joined the independent Norwegian research organisation, SINTEF, as an advisor to try and figure out if an exciting, new, and potentially game-changing electrolyser technology could be commercialised. It was during his time at SINTEF that Mowill met inventors of the technology, Alejandro Barnett and Magnus Thomassen, and co-founded what would become a trailblazer in modern electrolyser technology, Hystar.
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