Dive Brief:
Bloom Energy will install a 240-kW electrolyzer at Xcel Energy’s Prairie Island nuclear plant in Welch, Minnesota, to produce emissions-free hydrogen, the companies said Monday.
The demonstration project is designed to create “immediate and scalable pathways” for producing cost-efficient and clean hydrogen while adding value for nuclear power plants, Bloom and Xcel said.
Bloom, a fuel cell company, expects to start building the electrolyzer in late 2023 and start running it in early 2024.
Dive Insight:
The companies said the high heat and steam produced by Xcel’s 1,100-MW Prairie Island facility will feed into Bloom’s electrolyzer to produce zero-carbon hydrogen more efficiently than polymer electrolyte membrane or alkaline electrolysis alternatives, which require lower temperatures.
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