GKN Hydrogen announces the opening of its US headquarters in Carlsbad, CA.

GKN Hydrogen announces the opening of its US headquarters in Carlsbad, CA.

 CARLSBAD, CA, USA, March 24, 2023 – GKN Hydrogen today announced the opening of its North American headquarters. The company will manage its future activities in the USA and Canada from its headquarters in Carlsbad. This includes the organization of sales and application offices in the West, Mid-West and East regions as well as a service center for the HY2MINI, HY2MEDI and HY2MEGA energy and hydrogen storage systems including their localized production.

– The Carlsbad facility will house GKN Hydrogen Americas sales and engineering offices and service center for localization and field support of the company’s HY2MINI, HY2MEDI and HY2MEGA products.

 

– The Carlsbad location enables GKN Hydrogen Americas to participate in the region’s cleantech economy; facilitated by Cleantech San Diego, which includes more than 120 businesses, universities, governments, and nonprofits advancing sustainable solutions for the benefit of the economy, the environment, and all members of the community. 

 

– Located 30 minutes north of San Diego, 45 minutes south of Orange County the Carlsbad facility allows GKN Hydrogen Americas to attract employees from both the San Diego region and Orange County, California. 

GKN Hydrogen designs, manufactures, markets, and sells energy storage and hydrogen storage system utilizing metal hydride technology that help organizations decarbonize operations across a range of industries. The products store energy in the form of hydrogen within the company’s proprietary metal hydride hydrogen storage systems and is the safest way to store hydrogen in a compact footprint. 

 

The company’s products are deployable across a broad range of scale from small commercial facilities to industrial and utility scale installations. The GKN Hydrogen Americas team consists of professionals with the disciplines of business development, applications, and project engineering. The new facility will support the company’s expansion as the staff is expected to nearly triple over the next two years. The facility’s Carlsbad location allows GKN Hydrogen Americas to attract talent from both the San Diego region as well as Orange County, California.

 

At the Carlsbad location the HY2MINI and HY2MEDI products can be displayed to demonstrate the integration of hydrogen subsystems and components that result in the company’s energy storage products behaving like long duration battery storage but storing the energy in the form of hydrogen in the safest way possible – the solid state. 

 

“This Carlsbad facility gives us a presence in the US market and accelerates our efforts to sell, install and service GKN Hydrogen products in the Americas market”

"We are excited about the opening of our North American headquarters in Carlsbad. The investment will help us increase sales of our solutions in the American market and scale our business activities. We will leverage the resulting growth for further sales and business activities, as well as build-up and expansion into our local assembly

“We are pleased that GKN Hydrogen chose the San Diego region to locate its US headquarters. Hydrogen is an increasingly important contributor to decarbonization of our economy and innovations in storage like the GKN Hydrogen metal hydride hydrogen storage will help drive the adoption of hydrogen, ultimately benefiting the climate.”

About GKN Hydrogen:

GKN Hydrogen is pioneering safe, emission-free green hydrogen storage to help organizations and societies around the world achieve their carbon neutrality goals today, and in the years to come. By leveraging GKN’s world-leading position in powder metal solutions, they are bringing to market green, safe and compact hydrogen storage solution based on metal hydrides and offering a range of modular HY2 energy and hydrogen storage solutions.

 

About Cleantech San Diego:

Cleantech San Diego is a member-based business association founded 15 years ago that positions the greater San Diego region as a global leader in the cleantech economy. As a nonprofit organization, Cleantech San Diego is uniquely suited to support the industry by fostering collaborations across the private-public-academic landscape, leading advocacy efforts to promote cleantech priorities, and encouraging more equitable investment across the San Diego region.

Use of GKN Hydrogen Energy Storages: 

When needed, the green hydrogen can be used directly or converted back into electricity and heat to serve applications in existing and new infrastructure. The modular systems enable maximum versatility in the implementation of back-up power, off-grid energy supply, energy balancing and resiliency in residential and commercial buildings, large-scale utilities and industries, and refueling infrastructure. 

 

Media contacts:

 

North America 

Alan Lang, 

Senior Director Sales and Business Intelligence Americas 

alan.lang@gknhydrogen.com 

+1 248-705-1319 

 

EMEA & APAC 

Dirk Bolz 

Director Marketing 

dirk.bolz@gknhydrogen.com 

+49 157 85517867 

 

Italy

Jasmin Da Rui

Marketing & PR Manager 

jasmin.darui@gknhydrogen.com

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Hydrogen microgrid project operational utilizing GKN Hydrogen’s metal hydride hydrogen storage

Hydrogen microgrid project operational utilizing GKN Hydrogen’s metal hydride hydrogen storage

The project will validate and demonstrate the operation of GKN Hydrogen’s HY2MEDI energy storage system (ESS) integrated within the Circle Green Technical Park


CARLSBAD, CA, USA, March 13, 2023 /EINPresswire.com/ — GKN Hydrogen, Technology & Investment Solutions LLC and Circle Green, Inc. announce the operation of a microgrid project utilizing GKN Hydrogen’s metal hydride hydrogen storage.

– The microgrid is located at Circle Green Technical Park near Adelanto at the former Meadowbrook Dairy within an unincorporated portion of San Bernardino County.

 

– The project will validate and demonstrate the dynamic operation of GKN Hydrogen’s HY2MEDI energy storage system (ESS) integrated within the Circle Green Technical Park and supporting the renewable energy technology development at the site.

 

– The HY2Medi will replace a propane generator and provide carbon-free resiliency, paired with a solar installation, and long duration backup power in an off-grid application.

 

– The California Energy Commission provided $1.77 million in funding to deploy GKN Hydrogen’s HY2MEDI energy storage system (ESS), which utilizes innovative metal hydride hydrogen storage to store excess solar electricity and make it available to support the renewable microgrid.

 

– The renewable technology development activities at Circle Green Technical Park include a biogas to hydrogen reforming project under development by the University of Southern California.

The California Energy Commission (CEC), Technology & Investment Solutions LLC (TIS) and GKN Hydrogen today announced that GKN Hydrogen’s HY2MEDI energy storage system (ESS) is operational and has been integrated into the Circle Green Technical Park near Adelanto at the former Meadowbrook Dairy.

GKN Hydrogen’s HY2MEDI energy storage system utilizes metal hydride hydrogen storage to displace a propane generator and using off grid solar electricity will power the site to support the renewable energy technology development activities. The installation will receive $1.77 million dollars of funding from The California Energy Commission’s Electric Program Investment Charge (EPIC) program that invests in scientific and technological research to accelerate the transformation of the electricity sector to meet the state’s energy and climate goals.

The performance of the HY2MEDI installation will be evaluated over a range of environmental and operational conditions at the high desert site near dry lakebed Lake El Mirage. The HY2MEDI operates autonomously to control the microgrid, stores available solar electricity and delivers electricity as needed to support the technology development activities at the Technical Park.


“This project brings together a renewable microgrid at a site that is being repurposed, a regional project and biogas technology developer and a clean energy technology developer to implement solutions that can help decarbonize the power grid” said Janice Lin, the Founder and President of the Green Hydrogen Coalition. “This California Energy Commission (CEC) funded project demonstrates the technologies that will enable microgrids to operate autonomously, be used to balance the future electricity grid, and help decarbonize our economy”.


“This HY2MEDI project helps us demonstrate the potential in repurposing the former Meadowbrook Dairy as a renewable technology development site” said Kevin Sutton, CEO and owner of Circle Green, Inc., the project developer of a new composting and green fuel production facility. “The Circle Green Technical Park will help develop and demonstrate the technologies that will enable microgrids to operate autonomously, be used to balance the future electricity grid, and help decarbonize our economy”.


Paul Cook, First District Supervisor, San Bernardino Country stated “The HY2MEDI energy storage system will allow the storage and on-demand delivery of clean energy, regardless of the weather or time of day. I’m proud to see San Bernardino County businesses continue to lead the way in producing and storing clean renewable energy”.


Moh Ibrahim, Developer at Technology & Investment Solutions LLC (TIS) said, “We are honored to be the recipient of a CEC EPIC Award for this project to validate and demonstrate an energy storage system (ESS) using metal hydride hydrogen storage. This project will demonstrate the containerized HY2MEDI energy storage system can autonomously control microgrids and store available solar electricity to deliver electricity when needed and upon demand to support the renewable technology development at this site.”


This Mojave Desert location provides us the opportunity to validate the performance of GKN Hydrogen’s HY2MEDI energy storage system when exposed to environmental extremes including hot summer temperatures. The fully containerized and easy to deploy HY2MEDI demonstrates its flexibility to generate and store hydrogen for long duration energy storage applications and helps to buffer energy from intermittent renewables, such as solar, to enable microgrids to operate reliable and resiliently while utilizing renewable electricity.

About GKN Hydrogen:

GKN Hydrogen is pioneering safe, emission-free green hydrogen storage to help organizations and societies around the world achieve their carbon neutrality goals today, and in the years to come. By leveraging GKN’s world-leading position in powder metal solutions, they are bringing to market green, safe, and compact hydrogen storage solution based on metal hydrides and offering a range of modular HY2 energy systems.

GKN Hydrogen contacts:

EMEA & APAC
Dirk Bolz – Director Marketing
dirk.bolz@gknhydrogen.com
 

Italy
Jasmin Da Rui – Marketing & Funding Manager
jasmin.darui@gknhydrogen.com

North America
Alan Lang – Senior Director Marketing and Business Intelligence Hydrogen

alan.lang@gknhydrogen.com

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GKN Hydrogen, SoCalGas and the National Renewable Energy Laboratory agree to collaborate on the launch of an innovative hydrogen storage solution project ​

GKN Hydrogen, SoCalGas and the National Renewable Energy Laboratory agree to collaborate on the launch of an innovative hydrogen storage solution project

  • The U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) provided $1.7 million in funding to deploy GKN Hydrogen’s innovative hydrogen storage subsystem at the Flatirons Campus of DOE’s National Renewable Energy Laboratory (NREL) near Boulder, Colorado
  • GKN Hydrogen’s technology can help balance supply and demand by storing hydrogen for future energy needs
  • ARIES = Advanced Research on Integrated Energy Systems, is a platform that conducts integrated research to support the development of groundbreaking new energy technologies
  • SoCalGas provided $400,000 of Research, Development, and Demonstration funding to the project. The utility will assist and identify potential commercial use cases

BOULDER, Colo. June 28, 2022 – GKN Hydrogen and Southern California Gas Co. (SoCalGas) today announced the companies will work with the U.S. Department of Energy’s (DOE’s) National Renewable Energy Laboratory (NREL) on an innovative green hydrogen storage solution. GKN Hydrogen’s HY2MEGA can enable safe, long duration clean energy storage without the need for compression. At scale, this combined technology could provide resilient power in case of widespread outages. It also highlights the technologies needed to reach carbon neutrality and accelerate clean fuel initiatives.


Two HY2MEGA hydrogen storage subsystems will connect to an electrolyzer and fuel cell at the ARIES facility on NREL’s Flatirons Campus near Boulder, Colorado. The electrolyzer will use renewable sources and produce green hydrogen to be stored in the HY2MEGA. The HY2MEGA stores the hydrogen in a solid state (metal hydrides), under low pressure in a compact footprint. According to GKN Hydrogen, its one of the safest ways to store hydrogen. The fuel cell will then convert the green hydrogen to produce renewable electricity. The two HY2MEGA’s will add an additional 500 kgs of hydrogen storage on site. The three-year project is set to launch at the end of this year.

“SoCalGas will leverage the large-scale hydrogen storage capabilities of GKN Hydrogen’s HY2MEGA from this project to help accelerate the commercialization and deployment of green hydrogen projects,” said Neil Navin, vice president of clean energy innovations at SoCalGas. “Ultimately, green hydrogen generation and storage will help decarbonize the energy system while assuring stability of the electrical grid to enable even higher penetrations of renewable sources of electricity.“


“This project is exactly what the ARIES platform was designed for: demonstrate the benefits of a new technology that efficiently stores energy produced from renewable electricity,” said Katherine Hurst, group manager and research scientist at NREL. “It brings together a national laboratory, a clean energy technology developer, and a large utility to work on solutions that help decarbonize the power grid. We are looking forward to working with GKN Hydrogen and SoCalGas to advance this technology.”

 

“Collaborations on green hydrogen projects are essential as we tackle this climate emergency,” said Frank Wolak, President and CEO of the Fuel Cell and Hydrogen Energy Association (FCHEA). “This project will demonstrate how hydrogen storage can help reduce carbon emissions and is an innovative step towards a clean future for everyone.”


Bruno Biasiotta, Chief Executive Officer at GKN Hydrogen said, “We are really honored to be working with great organizations like NREL and SoCalGas to validate and demonstrate green hydrogen as a megawatt scale energy source. To accelerate the energy transition hydrogen cannot just be part of the discussion, it must be part of the solution. This project will demonstrate that large scale green hydrogen storage with HY2MEGA can be used to help decarbonize and accelerate the shift to cleaner fuels.”

500kgs of Innovative hydrogen storage to be installed at the Flatirons Campus of DOE’s National Renewable Energy Laboratory (NREL) near Boulder, Colorado (PRNewsfoto/GKN Hydrogen Corp)

About GKN Hydrogen:

GKN Hydrogen is pioneering safe, emission-free green hydrogen storage to help organizations and societies around the world achieve their carbon neutrality goals today, and in the years to come. By leveraging GKN’s world-leading position in powder metal solutions, they are bringing to market green, safe, and compact hydrogen storage solution based on metal hydrides and offering a range of modular HY2 energy systems.

 

About SoCalGas:
Headquartered in Los Angeles, SoCalGas® is the largest gas distribution utility in the United States. SoCalGas delivers affordable, reliable, and increasingly renewable gas service to 21.8 million consumers across 24,000 square miles of Central and Southern California. Gas delivered through the company’s pipelines will continue to play a key role in California’s clean energy transition—providing electric grid reliability and supporting wind and solar energy deployment.

 

SoCalGas‘ mission is to build the cleanest, safest and most innovative energy company in America. In support of that mission, SoCalGas aspires to achieve net-zero greenhouse gas emissions in its operations and delivery of energy by 2045 and to replacing 20 percent of its traditional natural gas supply to core customers with renewable natural gas (RNG) by 2030. Renewable natural gas is made from waste created by dairy farms, landfills, and wastewater treatment plants. SoCalGas is also committed to investing in its gas delivery infrastructure while keeping bills affordable for customers. SoCalGas is a subsidiary of Sempra (NYSE: SRE), an energy services holding company based in San Diego.

 

For more information visit socalgas.com/newsroom or connect with SoCalGas on Twitter (@SoCalGas)Instagram (@SoCalGas) and Facebook.

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GKN Hydrogen selected to be part of U.S. Department of Energy H2@Scale cooperative projects to help reach Hydrogen Shot

GKN Hydrogen selected to be part of U.S. Department of Energy H2@Scale cooperative projects to help reach Hydrogen Shot

  • DOE just announced nearly $8 million in funding for nine cooperative projects, one of which will include participation by GKN Hydrogen

  • GKN Hydrogen and the National Renewable Energy Laboratory (NREL) will validate and demonstrate the dynamic operation of a 520 kg hydrogen metal hydride storage subsystem integrated with the ARIES megawatt-scale hydrogen capabilities

  • ARIES = Advanced Research on Integrated Energy Systems, is a research platform that can match the complexity of the modern energy system and conduct integrated research to support the development of groundbreaking new energy technologies

  • This subsystem will include two GKN Hydrogen HY2Mega hydrogen storage tanks

Auburn Hills, October 15th, 2021 – GKN Hydrogen (GKN) is pleased to announce $1.7M of funding from the U.S. Department of Energy’s (DOE’s) Hydrogen and Fuel Cell Technologies Office within the Energy Efficiency and Renewable Energy Office awarded to DOE’s National Renewable Energy Laboratory (NREL) to add two HY2MEGA metal hydride hydrogen storage tanks to the hydrogen assets at the ARIES facility on NREL’s Flatirons Campus near Boulder, CO. GKN’s HY2MEGA storage subsystem will be connected to the megawatt-scale electrolyzer and fuel cell at the ARIES facility and validated by NREL scientists and engineers.  The performance of the HY2MEGA installation would be evaluated over a range of operational conditions and simulated use cases using the ARIES facility capabilities.  The construction schedule for adding the HY2 MEGA storage subsystem to the ARIES facility is expected to coincide with completion of the hydrogen assets in September 2022.

 

Peter Oberparleiter, Chief Executive Officer at GKN Powder Metallurgy, said:

„This a tremendous opportunity to collaborate with the DOE National Laboratories to validate and run megawatt scale use cases with our green, safe and compact metal hydride hydrogen storage solution.  Projects of this scale are needed to accelerate the adoption of zero emission technologies to help us all meet our future clean energy goals“

With its energy storage capacity of over 260kg hydrogen (~9MWh of energy), GKN’s HY2MEGA is the largest metal hydride storage on the market and ideally suited for energy supply applications where safety and compactness are crucial.

About GKN Hydrogen:

 

GKN Hydrogen, a division of GKN Powder Metallurgy, is pioneering safe, emission-free green hydrogen storage to help organizations and societies around the world achieve their carbon neutrality goals today, and in the years to come. By leveraging the business’s world-leading position in powder metal solutions, they are bringing to market green, safe and compact hydrogen storage solution based on metal hydrides and offering a range of modular HY2 energy systems.

 

GKN Powder Metallurgy, as a stand-alone business unit of Melrose PLC, today comprises four business units: GKN Powders, GKN Sinter Metals, GKN Additive and GKN Hydrogen. Together GKN Powder Metallurgy empowers over 6,000 problem solvers in 29 locations, setting its global technology network at the highest standard.

 

Contact for journalists

GKN Powder Metallurgy
Alexandra Rohe, Global Communications Manager
E-Mail: alexandra.rohe@gknpm.com 

 

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GKN Powder Metallurgy to establish new business unit GKN Hydrogen

GKN Powder Metallurgy to establish new business unit GKN Hydrogen

  • GKN Powder Metallurgy launches new dedicated green hydrogen unit, GKN
    Hydrogen, on May 11, 2021, with a virtual market launch event
  • GKN Hydrogen is pioneering emission-free, safe and compact all-in-one
    renewable energy storage solutions to drive the global energy transition
  • GKN Hydrogen’s unique green hydrogen storage technology based on metal
    hydrides is the most reliable and secure system on the market
  • The Hydrogen unit launch reinforces GKN Powder Metallurgy’s global
    technology leadership in conjunction with other advances the business is
    making, including in 3D printing

Bonn, Germany – May 4, 2021 – GKN Hydrogen’s 100% recyclable product suite has been developed and refined over the last years to become the most reliable and secure hydrogen storage solution on the market. The robust systems generate green hydrogen from fluctuating renewable energy sources, storing it compactly and safely in metal hydride over long periods of time.

 

When needed, the green hydrogen can be used directly or converted back into electricity and heat for a variety of applications. The scalable system design allows for maximum versatility, from emergency power backup and off-grid energy supply to residential housing, maritime transport, and large-scale industry.

 

Peter Oberparleiter, Chief Executive Officer at GKN Powder Metallurgy, said: „GKN Hydrogen is an incredibly exciting venture that will play a key role at the forefront of the energy transition. Using a state-of-the-art technology with far-reaching implications and extensive scope for development, we are helping to solve the issue of hydrogen storage and provide a clean energy for all that is green, safe and compact.“

 

With the launch of GKN Hydrogen, its second business unit to focus on innovative technologies alongside GKN Additive, GKN Powder Metallurgy is strengthening its position as a provider of leading-edge technology solutions for the future. Leveraging the
business‘ world-leading position in powder metal solutions, GKN Hydrogen is pioneering safe, emission-free green hydrogen storage to help organizations and societies around the world achieve their carbon neutrality goals today, and in the years to come.

 

Peter Oberparleiter continues: „We created GKN Hydrogen after consulting with colleagues from across GKN Powder Metallurgy and are proud to be seen as an enabler for a decentralized, carbon neutral energy supply infrastructure. We are very excited to introduce our new business unit to the world on May 11, 2021. Our mission is to stop climate change, for ourselves and for generations to come.“

With its energy storage capacity of 260kg hydrogen (4.5MWh electrical energy), GKN’s HY2MEGA is the largest metal hydride storage on the market and ideally suited for energy supply applications where safety and compactness are crucial.

Relevant Links:

Re-watch the Launch event: https://youtu.be/uvfnEoAMUMo
Follow us on LinkedIn at: www.linkedin.com/company/gkn-hydrogen

 

About GKN Hydrogen:

GKN Hydrogen is the latest business unit of GKN Powder Metallurgy and has been officially launched in May 2021. GKN Hydrogen is pioneering safe and emission-free storage of green hydrogen to drive the global energy transition.

The business unit provides proven, all-in-one clean energy management systems that enable pioneers and innovators around the world to achieve their zero-emissions goals today and in the future. 

 

Contact for journalists
Alan Lang, Senior Director Marketing and Business Intelligence Hydrogen
E-Mail: alan.lang@gknpm.com