Portugal's Fusion Fuel and Ballard Power jointly announced the successful commissioning of the H2Évora plant in Portugal. The grid-connected pilot project is expected to produce 15 tons of green hydrogen per year.

Portugal's Fusion Fuel has connected its green hydrogen plant to the grid in Évora, Portugal. The project is the first successfully commissioned solar-to-green hydrogen facility in Portugal.

The H2Évora pilot project includes 15 of the company's HEVO solar-powered hydrogen generators. The generators are expected to produce 15 tonnes of green hydrogen per year. The generator is equipped with a small proton exchange membrane (PEM) electrolyzer mounted on the back of a highly concentrated solar power (CPV) panel.

The facility includes a 200 kW FCwave fuel cell module, supplied by Canada-based Ballard Power, to convert green hydrogen into electricity, enabling Fusion Fuel to sell power to the grid during periods of peak demand. H2Évora, which includes hydrogen purification, compression and storage systems, has been in operation since late 2021 and is now connected to the Portuguese grid.

Frederico Figueira de Chaves, CFO of Fusion Fuel, said: "The facility will also be an important testing ground for our R&D team as we continue to iterate on the technology in the future."

In August, Fusion Fuel received a 10 million euro ($9.9 million) grant to develop the 6.6 MW HEVO industrial green hydrogen project in Sines, Portugal. The project will be equipped with 300 solar-powered hydrogen generators.