The systems will be used in a 12.5MW hydrogen pilot project on Jeju Island. The demonstration project is supported by the South Korean Ministry of Industry and Trade (Motie) with SK62bn ($43.3m) and aims to investigate and compare hydrogen production with different electrolysis technologies.
Among the five companies selected for the project, Enapter is the only technology supplier from Germany or Europe. The systems supplied are expected to produce more than 1,000 tonnes of green hydrogen per year. The installation of the two AEM Multicore electrolysers will be carried out by the company YEST, which has already been supporting Enapter as an integration partner since 2021.
With the AEM Multicore, Enapter has developed a cost-efficient alternative to traditional systems and the electrolyser can supply around 450kg of green hydrogen per day. By using several units in parallel, production can be expanded on an industrial scale.
Sebastian-Justus Schmidt, CEO of Enapter, said, “Korea is one of the world’s leading countries in the field of green hydrogen. We are all the more pleased to expand our partnership with YEST and intensify our cooperation. This joint project is a building block on the global path to carbon neutrality.”
Jang Dong-bok, CEO of YEST, said with Enapter, it wants to further improve the competitiveness of green hydrogen and leverage synergies. “The Korean government’s initiatives provide us with a very good foundation for this,” he said.
This month Enapter also received another order for the delivery of an AEM Multicore via its sales and integration partner Adsensys, which is scheduled to be delivered to a Dutch energy company in the fourth quarter.
The company delivered more than 1,200 electrolysers of the latest EL 4.0 generation in the last three months of 2022, corresponding to a total output of almost 3MW, marking its best quarterly production output in its short history.