DNV launches joint industry project with 18 partners to produce green hydrogen

Industry certification provider DNV is launching a new Joint Industry Project (JIP) in collaboration with 18 partners to enhance the standardisation for reliable, safe and cost-efficient hydrogen production systems to produce green hydrogen, the company said on Thursday.

The standardisation project pertains to systems that use renewable energy powered electrolysis for producing green hydrogen, the company said in a statement. Electrolysers are hydrogen producing devices, splitting water into hydrogen and oxygen using electricity in a chemical process known as electrolysis.

Partner companies currently involved in the project include bp, Elogen, Equinor, Green Hydrogen Systems, Industrie De Nora, ITM Linde Electrolysis, NextChem, Nordex, Shell, Siemens Gamesa, Siemens Energy, and thyssenkrupp nucera.

Representing a wide diversity of industrial sectors such as electrolyser and wind turbine manufacturers, developers of renewable assets, energy, and engineering, the companies will work with DNV to develop a certification scheme applicable for electrolyser projects – including the interface with renewable energy – on the topics of safety, performance and regulation.

“DNV predicts that hydrogen will move from approximately 1.9 percent of the mix of energy carriers in 2040 to 5 percent in 2050, a trend that DNV anticipates will continue into the second half of the century,” Kim Sandgaard-Mørk, Executive Vice President for Renewables Certification at DNV, said in the statement. “Especially decarbonising hard-to-abate sectors like aviation, maritime or long-haul trucking requires far greater scaling of green hydrogen,” he added.

According to Axel Dombrowski, Director Innovation & Digitalisation for Renewables Certification at DNV, the company undertook a similar approach for the wind energy industry about 30 years ago which proved to be very successful. “Now, we will take the learnings and implement these for the hydrogen technology on an accelerated path,” he said.