“This technology could represent a potentially transformative moment for opportunities to decarbonise several hard to abate industry sectors,” said KR Sridhar, Founder, Chairman, and CEO of Bloom Energy. “As a world leader in SOEC technology, we are poised to provide customers around the world with our proprietary, American-made energy technology to both reduce carbon footprint and sustain economic growth.”
Bloom’s SOEC technology can produce clean hydrogen at scale to augment or replace existing fossil fuel-powered 'grey' hydrogen supplies produced at refineries by high carbon dioxide-emitting steam-methane reformation. Clean or 'green' hydrogen is produced from water electrolysis, using renewable energy, essentially eliminating greenhouse gas emissions.
Demand for the Bloom Electrolyser®, which is manufactured in California and Delaware, has been growing given the increased interest in the low-carbon economy. Bloom staged a successful demonstration commencing in May of 2023 with its solid oxide electrolyser, with a capacity of 4 MW, where it produced 2.4 tpd of hydrogen at the NASA Ames research facility in Mountain View, California.