HYDROGREEN is developing Higher Efficiency Green Hydrogen production technology
Green hydrogen can be used with fuel cells to power anything that uses electricity including automobiles and electronic devices. Hydrogen-powered vehicles don't need charging like a Battery-Electric cars. They can be refueled with hydrogen gas, pumped in the same safe and convenient way as conventional gasoline or diesel car. Filling up a tank takes the same amount of time too, between 3-5 minutes for an automobile.
Currently the cost of Green Hydrogen, at $3.70/kg, is more expensive for auotmobile use than gasoline or electric battery. However, Investments to the tune of $10 trillion in the hydrogen sector are bringing the cost of Hydrogen fuel down to less than $1.00/kg in next decade and disrupt the energy sector, according to the analyst group Rethink Energy. Green Hydrogen will be the fuel of the future for automobiles. Numerous studies have shown that increasing the Solar to Hydrogen conversion efficiency is a significant step in reducing Green Hydrogen generation cost. Hydrogreen's research focuses on reducing the current production cost of Green Hydrogen by improvement the Photovoltaic-Electrolysis system efficiency by minimizing the water splitting voltage and deploying high efficiency eletrocatalysts in the electrolyzer. Hydrogreen plans to develop a prototype with hybridization of semiconductor oxide photoelectrodes, such as TiO2, WO3, BiVO4, etc, with noble metals which can provide enhancement of photo electrochemical performance and an overall solar to hydrogen conversion efficiency greater than 70%.