CEA, ENGIE, Neste, Paul Wurth and Sunfire will work together to demonstrate the production of renewable hydrogen at the Rotterdam biorefinery
Type of post: NEWS.
Neste has
acquired a minority stake in the German cleantech company Sunfire. In addition, both companies
together with CEA, ENGIE and Paul Wurth will work together to
demonstrate the production of renewable hydrogen at Neste’s Rotterdam biorefinery
with Sunfire’s high-temperature electrolyser.
Press releases:
- “Neste invests in Sunfire, leading
technology developer of high-temperature electrolysis and Power-to-X solutions”, 6/3/2020.
Figure 1. Neste has acquired a
minority stake in the German cleantech company Sunfire (extracted from the
press release)
As part of its growth strategy, Neste is
focused on innovation with the aim to develop the existing businesses and build
new business platforms. One of these fields of innovation are the Power-to-X solutions
(electricity conversion, energy storage and reconversion pathways that use
surplus electric power). Neste is investing in Sunfire whose patented
technology allows the production of renewable hydrogen as well as the direct
conversion of water and CO2 into raw material for petrochemical
products.
Moreover, CEA, Neste, Paul Wurth, ENGIE and
Sunfire have just announce a partnership to build and operate the world’s first
multi-megawatt scale high-temperature electrolyser for highly efficient
hydrogen production. It is the MULTIPLHY project (“Multi-megawatt
high-temperature electrolyser to generate green hydrogen for the production of
high-quality biofuels”) that has recently been launched at Neste’s biorefinery
in Rotterdam.
The project consortium led by CEA, as project
coordinator, is part of the EU Horizon 2020 FCH2-JU (Fuel Cells and Hydrogen 2
Joint Undertaking) program with an overall funding of 6.9 M€. The HTE will have
a nominal power input of 2.6 MW and a hydrogen production capacity of 60 kg/h
reaching an electrical efficiency of up to 85% AC to LHV H2.
