Renewable hydrogen projects have been complex and costly, often requiring extensive custom engineering, long execution timelines and significant upfront investment. These challenges have slowed project development and delayed large‑scale deployment. Nel ASA (Nel, OSE: NEL) today announces the commercial launch of its next‑generation pressurized alkaline electrolyser system, a new technology platform designed to simplify hydrogen production projects while significantly improving cost, efficiency and scalability.

Following more than eight years of development and successful full‑scale prototype testing at Nel’s Herøya facility in Norway, Nel’s next‑generation pressurized alkaline electrolyser system is now ready for commercial deployment. The solution sets a new cost benchmark for large‑scale electrolyser systems, at a time when many industrial projects have ended up at total system costs approaching, or even exceeding, USD 3,000 per kW. With this system, Nel enables an estimated turnkey full-scope cost below USD 1,450 per kW based on a 25 MW plant, with further cost synergies seen for larger plants. The estimates are based on 30 bar pressure delivered hydrogen with 99.99% purity. With this next-generation pressurized alkaline electrolyser, Nel is fundamentally changing the cost structure of industrial‑scale green hydrogen production.

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