2023 End-of-Year New Member Update

This exciting year is coming to a close, and with the announcement of the first seven Hydrogen Hubs and a slew of other big projects, partnerships, and progress in various market sectors, the industry has a lot to look forward to in 2024.  Since our last new member update in June, the Fuel Cell & Hydrogen Energy Association (FCHEA) has welcomed 13 additional members to the association that we are happy to highlight below. 

New Principal Member

Yamaha Motor Company has a global plan to achieve full carbon neutrality across all business activities, including the life cycles of its products, by 2050, and in its manufacturing operations, Scopes I and II, by 2030. This includes manufacturing operations in the USA.   

Yamaha’s U.S. Marine Business Unit, based in Kennesaw, Georgia, is pursuing a multi-technology approach to decarbonization, which includes electrification of lower-horsepower products, hydrogen and sustainable marine fuels. Additionally, Yamaha’s other divisions and portfolio includes products that are currently powered by internal combustion engines. These divisions will also require multiple technology solutions, including hydrogen.

New Supprting Members

Agfa-Gevaert manufactures Zirfon membranes for alkaline electrolyzer systems. Zirfon enables high efficiency, allows dynamic operating conditions, and has excellent durability, which reduces hydrogen production costs. Zirfon is available at industrial scale. By the end of 2023, Agfa-Gevaert will have produced a cumulative volume of Zirfon equivalent to 2GW of electrolyzers. In 2025, Agfa-Gevaert plans to have a novel production line with a capacity equivalent to 20GW/y to meet global demand.

Ambient Fuels is building a greener future by tackling the toughest decarbonization challenges with custom-engineered green hydrogen solutions. As a pure-play green hydrogen developer, Ambient focuses exclusively on electrolyzers and hydrogen production.  The company takes a collaborative approach, working closely with customers to optimize solutions to their unique needs. Ambient blends development and technical expertise with renewable energy and industrial process experience to oversee every step of execution—from project development and design to financing and construction. Ambient believes that taking an agnostic approach to technology selection and renewable energy sourcing can help improve efficiency and lower costs, ensuring that solution design is driven entirely by needs, and not by a bias to any one technology or resource pipeline.

Anew Climate, LLC, a leading environmental commodities firm in North America, helps climate-focused companies and organizations achieve positive impact through a comprehensive solutions portfolio. Within the burgeoning hydrogen space, Anew engages with both producers and transportation stakeholders to help them optimize their participation under various state and federal programs. Anew’s offerings include renewable natural gas, renewable energy certificates, carbon credits, EV credits, and emission credits, complemented by advisory services. The company brings together strategic finance, regulatory expertise, scientific knowledge, and impact focus and has established key pathways to maximizing value for hydrogen producers. Anew’s significant portfolio of ultra-low and negative carbon fuels, including renewable natural gas, can be part of the solution to decarbonize the hydrogen production process while allowing producers to unlock additional sources of value from the production of low carbon intensity hydrogen. Anew is also experienced in structuring international value chains to recognize low carbon hydrogen value, and within North American markets has a successful track record of providing turnkey support for mobility and LCFS program participants.

Ceres is a leading developer of clean energy technology, for green hydrogen and power generation.  Its licensing model has seen it establish partnerships with some of the world's most progressive companies, such as Bosch, Doosan, Shell and Weichai to develop systems and products at the scale and pace needed to support greater electrification of our energy systems and to decarbonise essential emissions-intensive industries such as steelmaking, cement, and future fuels.

Ceres recently announced that its first-of-a-kind solid oxide electrolyser is in the final stages of commissioning, on track to reach factory acceptance testing in the coming weeks. The technology can deliver green hydrogen at <40kWh/kg, around 25% more efficiently than incumbent lower temperature technologies. This demonstrator will be shipped to Shell’s R&D Centre in Bangalore, India, to substantiate the performance, cost, and operational functionality.

Edgewise Energy is a New York-based clean energy development firm that identifies and crafts opportunities to generate value for property owners, utilities, and infrastructure investors. By understanding the changing energy landscape at the intersection point of policy, technology, and finance, Edgewise delivers projects that make properties and portfolios more sustainable, profitable, and resilient, including several large-scale fuel cell deployments.

EvolOH is an electrolyzer stack manufacturing company funded by Breakthrough Energy, The Engine, and other top investment firms.   Based around an anion exchange membrane, EvolOH’s electrolyzer stacks are made using earth-abundant materials such as steel and plastic with 100% domestic supply chains.  Paired with advanced manufacturing techniques borrowed from adjacent high-tech industries, EvolOH can lower the cost of manufacturing electrolyzer stacks by an order of magnitude.

As a global manufacturing leader in gaskets and seals Flexitallic is committed to pioneering advancements in sealing technology. Flexitallic has introduced innovative materials, such as Thermiculite® and Corriculite®, that address the unique challenges posed by sealing hydrogen, fuel cells, and net zero technologies. Today, Flexitallic is expanding the Thermiculite® production line capacity by 50% to meet the growing needs of the hydrogen economy to accelerate the adoption of hydrogen as a clean and sustainable energy source.   

Neeltran (New Energy Transformer and Rectifiers), a business unit of American Superconductor (AMSC), designs and manufactures its own rectifier transformers and dc rectifiers in the same facility under one management team. This unique capability allows for combined Full Current and Full Voltage factory testing of the transformer and rectifier in their actual configuration prior to shipment.

NEUMAN & ESSER (NEA) is a global technology leader in compression systems and an integrated solution provider across the entire hydrogen value chain. Its portfolio ranges from electrolyzers, reformers, diaphragm and piston compressors, to hydrogen refueling stations (HRS) and consulting services to clean hydrogen projects.  Clients benefit from a single OEM expert integrating all elements of a hydrogen production system, guaranteeing optimum performance, competitive cost and full support throughout project lifecycle, from feasibility studies to operational maintenance and monitoring.

NEA is a family-owned business established in 1830 with currently 1,500 employees and holdings in Germany, the United States (U.S.), and China, including four production locations in Germany and one in the U.S. The group has 27 subsidiaries located worldwide to provide services, sales, and plant engineering activities to local markets.

OCI Global is a world-leading producer and distributor of ammonia, fertilizers and methanol, offering sustainable agricultural, fuel, and feedstock solutions to energy-intensive industries around the world. With a strategic global production and distribution platform, OCI is at the forefront of the world’s transition to clean energy, driving forward the decarbonization of food, fuel and feedstock through cleaner hydrogen-based products and sustainable solutions.

SolarEdge Technologies designs, develops, and sells direct current optimized inverter systems for solar photovoltaic installations. The company's systems consist of power optimizers, inverters, and cloud- based monitoring platforms and address a broad range of solar market segments, from residential solar installations to commercial and small utility-scale solar installations. The company sells its products directly to solar installers, engineering, procurement, and construction firms and indirectly to solar installers through distributors and electrical equipment wholesalers. Additionally, the company has nonsolar products targeting the energy storage, e-mobility, and ultracritical power solutions industries.

With more than 150 years of experience, Wabtec is a leading global provider of equipment, systems, digital solutions, and value-added services for the freight rail, transit, mining, industrial or marine sectors.  As the largest freight locomotive manufacturer, Wabtec moves more than 20 percent of the world’s freight with more than 20,000 locomotives in operation at railroads around the world, and the company’s braking systems, doors and other parts are installed on virtually every transit train globally. Additionally, more than 30 percent of all products moved through the nation’s shipping ports are tracked by Wabtec software.

Beyond renewable fuels and efficiency efforts, the rail industry requires new technologies to achieve its decarbonization targets. Hydrogen technologies present some of the most promising solutions for long-haul freight operations. Wabtec is pioneering the research, development, and demonstration that are needed to unlock the potential of hydrogen for the rail industry. The company is exploring the application of fuel cells and enhancing its existing internal combustion locomotive engines to burn hydrogen.

Through advancements in rail utilization, alternative fuels, and cutting-edge locomotive technologies, Wabtec is steering the rail industry toward a cleaner future. The company’s expertise, technologies, and people are working to accelerate the future of transportation and the vision to achieve a zero-emission rail system in the U.S. and worldwide

These new members join FCHEA’s impressive roster of market-leading companies and organizations, and we have several more in the pipeline we are excited to announce soon! 

To learn more about FCHEA’s additions over the past year, check out our previous blog posts on new member updates.

•  June 26, 2023 - New Member Highlight 2023

• January 9, 2023 - End of Year New Member Wrap Up

•  May 4, 2022 - FCHEA Welcomes New Members

• January 10, 2022 - FCHEA New Member Introduction

If you are interested in joining our efforts and learning more about FCHEA’s activities and membership, please contact us!