Stamicarbon participating in green hydrogen project

ENEA, the Italian National Agency for New Technologies, Energy and Sustainable Economic Development, will lead an interdisciplinary consortium of nine European partners to develop a prototype for high-temperature electrolysis, using renewable solar heat and power to produce green hydrogen in a continuous way.

Green hydrogen is an energy vector produced out of water and electricity from renewable energy sources e.g. solar, wind and hydropower. By working in close connection with leading European industrial companies, this challenging and innovative project called PROMETEO, will contribute to move a step forward in decarbonising the energy, chemical and nitrogen fertilizer sectors, in line with the EU decarbonisation targets by 2030. The European Community supports PROMETEO, with a funding of €2.5 million, provided by the public-private platform "Fuel Cells and Hydrogen Joint Undertaking" - FCH JU.

PROMETEO will use the solid oxide technology to build a 25 kWe prototype electrolyser capable of producing 15 kg of hydrogen per day, with the potential to be replicated on the MWe industrial scale. The prototype will combine renewable heat and electricity to perform high-temperature electrolysis in a continuous way. PROMETEO will address the intermittent supply of solar energy by developing an innovative system to manage the energy conversion and re-generation phases. The final prototype will be characterised by improved efficiency, reliability and flexibility for meeting the energy demands of the energy and chemical industries.