Elcogen will develop a new production facility in Tallinn, Estonia, to expand its solid oxide fuel cell (SOFC) and stack and solid oxide electrolyser cell (SOEC) and stack manufacturing capability.
The 14,000m2 plant, located in the Loovälja Industrial Park, is expected to boast a capacity of 10MW to 360MW and it will be operational by mid-2025. Elcogen will develop the facility in collaboration with Maru Ehitus AS.
Elcogen plans to install the latest technology, featuring customised, automated and high-output production processes to enable mass manufacturing.
Through the new facility, efficiency gains leading to a 60% cost reduction in production are anticipated by Elcogen’s Chief Operating Officer (COO), Stefano Piscitelli.
“The scalability of our production technology will enable us to further optimise our cost structure and the factory will also serve as an industrial platform for our global expansion,” added the COO.
Margo Dengo, CEO of Maru Ehitus, said, “Our main focus is industrial real estate and the new production facility for Elcogen not only gives us opportunity to use our experience but is also an interesting challenge; the building is very complex, there are high demands from the process side and it uses several modern technologies, such as the re-use of excess heat.”
At the start of the year (2024), Elcogen and its partner Convion announced a successful breakthrough in green hydrogen production through its solid oxide electrolyser tech.
Read more:Breakthrough achieved in solid oxide green hydrogen production by Elcogen and Convion
Speaking during H2 View’s In Conversation with Ceres webinar, Tony Cochrane, CCO at Ceres Power, claimed SOEC and SOFC technology could dominate industrial industries, including ammonia production and aviation fuels.
Due to its high-temperature process, solid oxide systems can produce and convert hydrogen at superior efficiencies when compared with PEM and alkaline tech.
Read more:Solid oxide electrolyser tech could ‘dominate the industrial market’: Ceres Power CCO
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