In order to reinforce the organisation’s position as a key technological partner in the development of new sustainable technologies that will help to decarbonise the industry, Tekniker has set up a strategic collaboration with the Spanish start-up H2Greem focused on technologies and products related to generating green hydrogen.  

This strategic partnership will allow both parties to share the resources and knowledge required to meet the sector’s challenges and requirements for the ultimate purpose of facilitating and accelerating the application of new hydrogen production technologies in the energy market.  

The main goal of this partnership is to boost research and industrial scaling for Proton Exchange Membrane (PEM) electrolysers to produce green hydrogen at competitive prices. 

Electrolysers are devices that use a chemical process (electrolysis) to produce hydrogen that separates hydrogen and oxygen molecules that water is made up of  by applying electricity. 

Advantages of PEM technology

PEM technology offers major advantages such as the purity of the hydrogen it produces and the ease with which hydrogen can be incorporated to renewable energy plants.  

Tekniker has several pieces of equipment developed by H2Greem used to study materials and components and establish the best combination required to manufacture these energy generation systems.   

Eva Gutierrez, a Tekniker researcher and an expert in the area of hydrogen technologies, says that “we have analysed the performance of new PEM electrolyser configurations under real operating conditions on a 1 kW test bench manufactured by H2Greem. Moreover, and in order to optimise other generator systems and control algorithms, we also own a 5kW electrolyser demonstrator made by the start-up”. 

H2Greem is a technological firm that originally emerged from the area of innovation and intra-entrepreneurship at Enagás (Enagás Emprende) dedicated to developing, manufacturing and marketing hydrogen generators based on PEM technology. It is the only Spanish manufacturer that possesses in-house technology to propose integral PEM electrolyser solutions.

The collaboration in which Tekniker and H2Greem are involved will serve to boost Tekniker’s commitment with regard to green hydrogen and will allow the technology centre to obtain first-hand information on market needs so that the organisation’s research activities can be adapted accordingly.