Nel joins network of Norwegian technology companies
Nordic Industry Center is initiated by BI Norwegian Business School and Kongsberg Innovation and located at the Tsinghua University in Beijing, China’s leading University.
Nel ASA joins the network of Norwegian technology companies with international growth ambitions.
The network, which is named Nordic Industry Center, aims to create an arena for knowledge sharing, project development, and acceleration of Norwegian companies that want to take part in Chinese megaprojects and grow their business in China.
Nel entered into a cooperation agreement with Nordic Industry Center in December last year, and the agreement was officially signed on Thursday this week at the Advisory Board’s first meeting, which has been postponed until now due to corona restrictions.
Fertiliser company Yara also signed the agreement at yesterday’s meeting, and other large Norwegian industry companies are in the process of joining the network as well. The Confederation of Norwegian Enterprise (NHO), Global Green Hydrogen Organization and the municipality of Oslo has also signed up to the partnership.
“The hydrogen market is developing extremely fast, and the geographical scope is broadening. We will probably see that some of the largest hydrogen projects are located in Asia, Latin America, Australia, and the Middle East in a few years. To be a partner in Nordic Industry Center can be valuable for us when approaching these important markets”, says Jon André Løkke.
Last week Nel officially opened its new and fully automated electrolyser facility at Herøya in Norway. Currently, the factory has a production capacity of 500 MW, but the capacity can be increased to 2 GW.
“The next step for us will be to industrialise our PEM technology platform in a similar way that we have done with our Alkaline technology at Herøya, and we have initiated a site selection process in the US for both our Alkaline and PEM technology,” says Løkke.
Nel is the World’s largest electrolyser manufacturer, with more than 3,500 units delivered in more than 80 countries since 1927. The company has previously communicated an ambition to reach 10 GW production capacity in Europe, Asia and the US within 2025 if required by the market.
