H2Pro – a startup company founded by Technion researchers – recently celebrated laying the cornerstone of its new production facility for green hydrogen systems in the Tzipporit industrial zone. The March 2022 ribbon-cutting ceremony was attended by 300 guests, including senior officials from the Energy Ministry, the CEO of the Innovation Authority, Technion leadership, partners, investors, and company employees. In the first facility of its kind in Israel, H2Pro will produce cost-effective green hydrogen systems using its innovative patented E-TAC (Electrochemical – Thermally-Activated Chemical) water-splitting technology.
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E-TAC was developed as part of The Nancy and Stephen Grand Technion Energy Program (GTEP), with research conducted by Professors Gideon Grader of the Wolfson Faculty of Chemical Engineering and Avner Rothschild of the Faculty of Materials Science and Engineering, together with Technion alumnus Dr. Hen Dotan.
At the March ceremony, Grader thanked Technion’s past and present management, as well as praised GTEP members. “This amazing journey started in 2007 at GTEP,” has said at the event. “It is thanks to GTEP’s interdisciplinary team of scientists from various faculties that this project is so successful.”
Their novel water splitting method for producing green hydrogen from water and electricity is safe, affordable, highly efficient and easy to scale up. H2Pro anticipates significant reductions in the costs of renewable energy and believes its technology will enable $1/kg hydrogen at scale in the second half of this decade. By the end of 2023, the Tzipporit facility should be up and running, capable of producing 600 megawatts per year of green hydrogen systems. Once operational, it will create over 100 new jobs.
Founded in 2019 by Grader, Rothschild and Dotan, H2Pro is led by CEO Talmon Marco and is backed by Bill Gates and other leading investors.