Bloom Energy Corporation has inaugurated its high volume commercial electrolyzer line at the company’s plant in Newark, Delaware, according to a press release.
The new line increases the company’s generating capacity of electrolyzers to 2 GW.
In the last decade, the facility has produced over 1 gigawatt (GW) of fuel cell-based Energy Servers. The Bloom Electrolyzer relies on the same solid oxide technology platform used to produce electricity, so the company can streamline existing manufacturing.
The technology is being demonstrated in partnerships withand Idaho National Labs to harness nuclear and steam power, and will be demonstrated with LSB Industries, Inc. to decarbonize industrial and agricultural sectors. Internationally, the technology is in use in South Korea.
In July of this year Bloom Energy opened a 164,000 square foot, multi-gigawatt facility in Fremont, California, representing USD 200m in investment and bringing Bloom’s California headcount to nearly 2,000 in addition to its 715 Delaware employees.
Bloom recently announced plans to install a 240-kW electrolyzer at the Xcel Energy Prairie Island nuclear plant in Welch, Minnesota.
