Ohmium International, through its Indian subsidiary, has launched India’s first Green Hydrogen Electrolyzer Gigafactory at Bengaluru in Karnataka.
The proton exchange membrane (PEM) hydrogen electrolyzer is at the heart of production of Green Hydrogen as it uses power generated from renewable resources to break water into hydrogen and oxygen.
The facility will have an initial annual capacity of 0.5 GW per year that can be scaled up to 2 GW.
While a number of corporates have announced plans to produce green hydrogen, the manufacture of electrolyzer by Ohmium will ensure availability of end-to-end solution within the country and cut down dependence on imports for this key equipment, Ohmium said in a release.
The company aims to become a pioneer in enabling the production of Green Hydrogen in India, thereby making the nation ‘AatmaNirbhar’ in clean energy, the release said.
Fuel of the future
Green Hydrogen, which is the pollution-free fuel of the future, is industry agnostic and will facilitate India’s transition to clean energy. With zero carbon footprint, the green hydrogen can be utilized for fertilizer production, refinery processing, steel production, conventional vehicle transportation with methanol blending, and direct hydrogen transportation in fuel-cell based vehicles. Green Hydrogen can also be stored and transported.
Leading-edge PEM
Ohmium’s technology is leading edge PEM with the bulk of PEM development in India. Ohmium has established a Gigafactory which manufactures Indian-made PEM hydrogen electrolyzers. The factory has a capacity of manufacturing approximately ½ GW per year today. But, we can quickly expand that to 2 GW per year,” said Arne Ballantine, CEO & Co-Founder, Ohmium.
(Featured diagram, sourced from Ohmium, illustrates the working of a proton-exchange membrane to produce green hydrogen.)
