SunHydrogen secures funding of $3.1 million for Project NanoPEC
In California, SunHydrogen, a developer of a technology to produce renewable hydrogen using sunlight and water, announced the approval of Project NanoPEC, a 3-year initiative that will enable the company to rapidly move to the commercialization of its technology
Coordinated by the Fraunhofer Center for Silicon Photovoltaics, in Germany, the objective of Project NanoPEC is to bring SunHydrogen’s patented technology to a demonstration plant scale and develop manufacturing technology to support automated production on a 1000-unit scale, among other key goals.
“We are thrilled to announce the approval of Project NanoPEC and we believe this cooperation will be highly complementary to our team’s ongoing work to bring our technology to commercialization,” said SunHydrogen’s CEO Tim Young.
Project NanoPEC is supported with approximately $3.1 million in funding by the Federal Government of Germany’s 7th Energy Research Program. In 2021, the 7th Energy Research Program issued a funding announcement for innovators in the renewable energy space whose technologies can support Germany’s larger goal of greenhouse gas neutrality by 2045.
Per the grant’s criteria, Project NanoPEC’s operations will be carried out in Germany. In addition to Fraunhofer and Schmid, other partners includes WAVELABS Solar Metrology Systems GmbH; ECH Elektrochemie Halle GmbH; Zahner-Elektrik; and Helmholtz-Zentrum Berlin.
Each project partner brings highly advanced expertise in areas including but not limited to device testing and measurement; design; manufacturing technology; solar simulation; electrochemical analytics; photoelectrode scale-up and catalyst materials.
Category: Hydrogen
