Verdagy has opened its electrolyser manufacturing facility in Silicon Valley, California, with production set to begin in Q1 2025.
The plant in Newark, supported by $39.6m of US Department of Energy (DOE) funding, will manufacture the start-up’s 20MW eDynamic alkaline electrolyser modules, based on a single-cell architecture.
Planned to boast up to “several gigawatts” of manufacturing capacity, the company partnered with metal coil provider ATI to optimise “everything” in the factory, according to Verdagy Chief Operating Officer (COO), Peter Cousins.
“Our new multi-gigawatt factory in California is intentionally simple, precisely what is needed to solve for the scale and fossil parity costs required to decarbonise hard-to-abate industries,” the COO explained.
The company claims it will be able to add “gigawatts of capacity” at costs five times lower than its competitors, “enabling massive, financially prudent scaling of capacity.”
Verdagy explained that the electrolyser manufacturing process will start with ATI’s metal coils – which are used in the production of bipolar plates, electrodes and current collectors – and finish with electrolyser cells, by vertically integrating subassemblies.
“ATI’s partnership with Verdagy is an ideal opportunity for our high-performing, high-quality materials in the speciality energy market,” said Tom DeLuca, President, ATI Specialty Rolled Products.
Having been named as a future supplier for Shell’s green hydrogen projects, Verdagy has attracted the attention of major investors such as Temasek, Samsung, Yara and more.
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The firm’s eDynamic electrolyser technology is based on cells that can operate from 0.1/cm2 to 2 /cm2, enabling a turn-down ratio of 20:1, offering a flexible range to work with fluctuating renewable energy supplies.
Over the past four years, Verdagy says it has had four electrolysers in operation, producing some 100 tonnes of hydrogen.
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