Verdagy today celebrated the grand opening of its new factory in Newark, California. The facility, which has more than 100,000 square feet of manufacturing space, will produce several gigawatts of electrolyzers. It is the first Department of Energy-supported electrolyzer manufacturing facility in the U.S.
The company’s gigawatt-scale factory was announced in 2023 and received a $39.6 million grant from the DOE in March 2024 to accelerate the high-volume manufacturing of Advanced Alkaline Water Electrolysis (AWE) eDynamic electrolyzers. High-volume production is scheduled to begin in the first quarter of 2025—a significant step in advancing green hydrogen manufacturing in the United States.
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Verdagy makes advanced electrolysis systems that are used in the large-scale production of green hydrogen. The company’s patented, single-cell architecture enables electrolyzers that pair in real-time with renewable energy sources with efficiencies that offer the industry’s lowest levelized cost of hydrogen, according to the company.
The company plans to reduce electrolyzer stack costs by implementing advanced manufacturing automation, including integrating a domestic nickel alloy into a high-volume, automated manufacturing line.
Verdagy has partnered with ATI, Inc., a key supplier using U.S. metal alloys for their electrolyzers. Verdagy’s manufacturing process will start with ATI’s metal coils and output finished electrolyzer cells by vertically integrating subassemblies with minimal manual handling and processing. ATI and Verdagy coined this electrolyzer manufacturing process as “Coils-to-Cells.”
Verdagy says its manufacturing strategy will allow it to add gigawatts of capacity at costs five times lower than competitors’, enabling massive, financially prudent capacity scaling. The company also has the ability to be nimble and flexible and quickly adjust roadmaps without conflicts from competing incumbent businesses.
The “Coils-to-Cells” manufacturing system aligns with the DOE goal that domestic electrolyzer manufacturing should be supported by a domestic supply of metals.
“With deep experience in both utility-scale solar and automotive battery manufacturing, we knew the importance of designing and solving for scale from the very beginning. This motivated us to look end-to-end as we approached green hydrogen electrolyzer manufacturing,” said Peter Cousins, Chief Operating Officer, Verdagy. “Verdagy partnered with ATI to optimize everything, with innovations from molten metal through coils to completed electrolyzer cells. Our new multi-gigawatt factory in California is intentionally simple, precisely what is needed to solve for the scale and fossil parity costs required to decarbonize hard-to-abate industries.”
In addition to its gigawatt-scale factory in Silicon Valley, Verdagy has a highly automated hydrogen plant in Moss Landing, California.
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