Funding Available For Electrolyser Technology

Energy storage is an area showing strong growth in patenting. In recent years, for example, several inventions have been developed in the context of energy storage solutions in combination with offshore wind installations. According to a patent insight report published by the European Patent Office (EPO) and the International Renewable Energy Agency (IRENA), offshore wind combined with electrolyser technology is an area rapidly scaling up in innovation. It is therefore great to see that £500k in funding has been made available by the Net Zero Technology Centre for its electrolyser technology competition.

Different solutions have been proposed for combining offshore wind with electrolyser technology, ranging from electrolysers located onshore (with electricity being transmitted by a subsea cable from the wind farm site to the electrolyser and then hydrogen being produced on land) to electrolysers integrated in the wind turbines themselves (where hydrogen is produced