Innovationslabor Wasserelektrolyse: Vom Material zum System: InnoEly (abgeschlossen)

A lot of energy is needed to split water into its components hydrogen and oxygen and make hydrogen usable as an energy carrier. To make this process of electrolysis more efficient, the innovation laboratory "Water Electrolysis: From Material to System" (InnoEly) is working on increasing the efficiency of hydrogen production. 

The aim of the InnoEly project is to increase the efficiency of hydrogen production in order to achieve further cost reductions and efficiency increases. In this way, the project aims to contribute to enabling the electrolysis capacity of 5 GW by 2030 and 10 GW by 2035 targeted by the German government in the national hydrogen strategy.

To this end, the aim is to investigate how electrolysers should be dimensioned - depending on the application - and which materials and technologies should be used to make hydrogen production as efficient as possible. "We are already clearly moving on an industrial scale here, but we are working on increasing the efficiency and service life in the process once again and reducing the costs," says Prof. Hanke-Rauschenbach, project manager at Leibniz Universität Hannover, about the goals of the project.

For the further development of hydrogen technologies, the Ministry of Science and Culture (MWK) is funding so-called innovation labs with up to 6.5 million euros. More information on the innovation labs.

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