The Hydrogen Stream: BGR Tech partners alkaline electrolyzer manufacturer Stargate for green hydrogen projects in India

BGR Tech Ltd, a Prenora Investment holding company in India, has entered into a strategic partnership with Stargate Hydrogen, an Estonia-based alkaline electrolyzer stack developer.

This collaboration aims to bring Stargate’s advanced high-pressure alkaline water electrolyzer (AWE) technology to the Indian market. Stargate’s flagship product, the Stellar Series AWE, operates at pressures up to 32 bar and offers a single stack capacity of up to 100 Nm³/h (500 kW). This design focuses on minimizing maintenance and operational costs, making it a practical solution for green hydrogen production.

Stellar Series electrolyzer will be integrated into BGR Tech’s pilot plant, which includes an ultra-pure water treatment unit, a gas separation unit, and a hydrogen purification system. This integration is expected to enhance the efficiency and reliability of hydrogen production systems tailored for Indian projects. The BGR-Tech’s inhouse pilot plant in Chennai is expected to start producing green hydrogen by May 2025 and the same will be used as R&D tool for further monitoring and improving the reliability and efficiency of the system.

The agreement also includes the intent to execute many other larger electrolyser projects with options to cooperate with BGR Tech for local manufacturing in addressing the growing GH2 project needs between 2024 and 2030. Additionally, Stargate will provide comprehensive engineering support during the system definition stage and will scale up the developed solution to deliver further electrolyser stacks for subsequent installations.

Spray Engineering Device has signed a Memorandum of Commitment with the Government of Himachal Pradesh for setting up India’s first integrated manufacturing facility of active pharmaceutical ingredients (API), green hydrogen and 2G ethanol plant in Solan district with an investment of INR 1,400 crore. “The project would require 30 MW green hydrogen in the first phase and in the coming time it would have requirement of 50 MW green hydrogen,” stated a government release.

2G ethanol is ethanol produced from agri waste or residue, compared to 1 G ethanol produced from sugar or starch directly extracted from a plant. Green hydrogen is harnessed from 2G ethanol using reformers. One of the biggest applications of hydrogen is in the chemical industry.

NTPC has invited bids for hydrogen refueling station for green hydrogen mobility project in Bhubaneswar, Odisha. The selected bidder shall be responsible for the design, engineering, supply, construction, erection, testing, commissioning of the hydrogen fuelling station, including civil and architectural works with 10 years of operation and maintenance (O&M) works of all systems on turnkey basis. It will integrate the system with an electrolyser system of 18 kg/hour (electrolyser system will be provided by the NTPC).

A Moroccan government committee approved six green hydrogen projects with a reported value of up to MAD 319 billion ($32.5 billion). “The companies are leading companies in the field of green hydrogen in their countries, namely the investor alliance Ornx consisting of the companies Ortus from the United States of America, Acciona from Spain, and Nordex from Germany, which will invest in the production of ammonia, in addition to another investor alliance consisting of the Emirati companies Taqa and the Spanish Cepsa, to produce ammonia and synthetic fuel, and the Moroccan company Nareva, which will produce ammonia, synthetic fuel and green steel,” said the national government. “Meanwhile, the Saudi company ACWA Power intends to invest in the production of ammonia, which is the same material that another investment alliance consisting of two Chinese companies, UEG, and China Three Gorges, intends to produce.” Morocco said it will offer each project up to 30,000 hectares of land.

The European Hydrogen Bank’s second auction for renewable hydrogen production has attracted 61 bids from projects in 11 countries. The European Commission said that eight bids were submitted under the dedicated maritime topic by hydrogen producers with off-takers in the maritime sector. “The total grant support requested is more than €4.8 billion ($5.2 billion), four times the available budget of €1.2 billion provided by the Innovation Fund. All bids taken together account for a total electrolyzer capacity of around 6.3 GWe,” said the commission.

Tata Motors has launched the first-ever trials of hydrogen-powered heavy-duty trucks. India’s Ministry of New and Renewable Energy awarded Tata Motors the tender for this trial. “It marks a significant step forward in assessing the real-world commercial viability of using hydrogen-powered vehicles for long-distance haulage as well as setting-up the requisite enabling infrastructure for their seamless operation,” said India’s largest commercial vehicle manufacturer. The trucks, equipped with new age Hydrogen Internal Combustion Engines (H2-ICE) and Fuel Cell (H2-FCEV) technologies, have an operational range of 300 km to 500 km.

BP has scrapped its large-scale HyGreen Teesside project in the North East of England. “As we set out in our strategy reset announcement last week, in hydrogen and carbon capture, BP is focusing on high-graded projects, prioritizing 5-7 projects for this decade. In the UK, our focus is on the significant projects in Teesside, like NZT Power, NEP, and also H2Teesside. Therefore, we are no longer progressing our plans to develop HyGreen,” said a company spokesperson.

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