“We are planning to have systems in the field by 2025,” Barrett said. To enable this, Hysata will grow its team of 20 engineers significantly this year. Image: Hysataįrom pilot scale, the company wants to jump directly into gigafactories. The Hysata Team in Wollongong, which is on the New South Wales south coast. He is hoping to begin testing them in parallel within the next few months, with plans to ramp up the pilot line in 2023.
“We’re building a huge test capacity, like, today,” he said. “Our technology will enable hydrogen production of below US$1.50 per kilogram by the mid-2020s, meeting Australian and global cost targets much earlier than generally expected,” Barrett said.īarrett said the company is busy building its pilot line of electrolyzers in a house near Wollongong now. The academic added the company has “a simplified system which really reduces the cost quite substantially.” Costīarrett didn’t want to commit publicly to the price of the Hysata electrolyzer, but said the company is in conversation with around 30 “name brand companies,” needing green hydrogen, who are “thrilled” about the economics. “You really collapse the project economics through that efficiency lever,” Barrett told pv magazine Australia. This 20% efficiency boost has enabled the massive cost reduction Hysata says it’s only a few years away from making a reality. This equates to around 75% system-level efficiency, whereas the Hysata system claims a total efficiency of 95%. The Nature paper noted commercial electrolysis cells tend to use around 47.5kWh/kg, though Hysata CEO Paul Barrett claimed it was closer to 52.5kWh/kg. The Hysata electrolyzer consumes 40.4kWh of energy for every kilogram of hydrogen it produces. How Hysata's capillary-fed electrolyzer cell works Image: Hysata This was verified in a paper published today in peer-reviewed scientific journal Nature, which found the capillary-fed electrolyzer could produce green hydrogen from water at 98% cell energy efficiency. There, researchers led by Gerry Swiegers discovered hydrogen could be produced far more efficiently using capillary-fed electrolysis. The company was born out of an electrolysis breakthrough made at the University of Wollongong, south of Sydney, around three years ago. Moreover, the company believes it can reach gigawatt scale hydrogen production within a similar timeframe, saying its design is simple and suitable for mass manufacture today. New South Wales company Hysata is on track to commercialize the world’s most efficient electrolyzer, capable of producing green hydrogen for less than US$1.5 per kilogram by the ‘mid 2020s,’ it says. Clean Power Research: Solar data solutions to maximize PV project performance.Energy Storage North America Special 2018.The smarter E Europe 2019 special edition.Market overview: Microgrid control systems.Market overview: Large-scale storage systems.
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