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Nel orders equipment for second facility
Factory needed to meet growing demand for electrolysers that cannot be met by Heroya site alone
Norwegian electrolyser and refuelling station manufacturer Nel has ordered production equipment for a second automated electrolyser manufacturing line following the startup of its Heroya facility. Nel opened the Heroya site last month and has already delivered its first systems manufactured there. Heroya has an electrolyser production capacity of 500MW/yr, which could rise to 2GW/yr with further investment—but this is just 20pc of the 10GW/yr capacity the firm hopes to reach by 2025. Nel has completed designs for a plant including plans for reassembled pipes, stacks and separators to bring down costs, and is looking for a site having ordered the manufacture of some key items. “We decided yes
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