Partners

Coxabengoa is a technology company that applies innovative solutions for sustainable development in the infrastructure, environment and energy sectors while providing long-term value for its shareholders via management characterized by the fostering of entrepreneurial spirit, social responsibility, transparency, and rigor. Coxabengoa develops three different activities: Engineering and Construction, Infrastructure Concessions and Industrial Production.

The enterprise, Coxabengoa Tech. is a company headquartered in Seville (Spain). Its objective is the organization and operation of businesses and activities related to the production and the storage of electric energy using different technologies, as well as the production of energy from renewable sources, and its clean and efficient use.

The main activities carried out in recent times are in the areas of energy efficiency and energy storage, power electronics, aerospace, electromobility, development of hydrogen and fuel cell technologies and power generation plants based on fuel cells.

Coxabengoa Tech’s workforce compromises 51 Engineers and Licentiates, experts in different disciplines, who have been developing projects in the hydrogen and fuel cell sector for 15 years.

https://www.coxabengoa.com/

INEA is the leading company in Slovenia in the field of energy management solutions, industrial automation, process computer control and manufacturing informatics.

Founded in 1987, is now an SME with 50+ highly educated employees which develops, installs and supports industrial and residential energy management and control systems. Its major interests lie in the areas of efficient energy use, CHP implementation and development and implementation of energy monitoring and targeting systems. INEA’s experts are active in research projects in the fields of smart grid solutions, advanced control technologies and fuel cells and hydrogen technologies.

INEA’s relevant experiences include those with peak-demand levelling, load shedding, process scheduling and the use of internal power generation facilities in the field of electricity and heat management. More than 50 demand response management systems have been implemented and installed in various industries with total installed power of 250 MW, generating in total 35 MW demand response.

Partnering with Slovenia’s biggest DSO company INEA implemented and demonstrated the first Virtual Power Plant system based on own Demand Side Management technology.

INEA has been a member of Hydrogen Europe since 2010.

http://www.inea.si

JMFC is a leading developer, manufacturer and supplier of fuel cell catalysts, membrane electrode assemblies (MEAs), catalyst coated membranes (CCMs) and other components to fuel cell and electrolyser developers worldwide. JMFC is a partly owned subsidiary of Johnson Matthey plc, a speciality chemicals company and world leader in advanced materials technology with over 13,000 employees in over 30 countries. JMFC develops, manufactures and supplies catalysts, electrodes and MEAs for low temperature proton exchange membrane (PEMFC) and direct methanol fuel cells (DMFC), proton exchange membrane water electrolysers (PEMWE) and high temperature phosphoric acid based fuel cell systems (PAFC) and currently produces several hundreds of thousands of electrode/CCM/MEA product parts per annum.

With 130 permanent employees, almost all based in the UK. Over 50% of the staff is professional technical personnel with science and engineering qualifications, working in research, product and process development. Significant investments have been made in recent years in world-class fuel cell materials and component research and MEA testing facilities at the parent corporate Technology Centre in Sonning Common, near Reading, and in the world’s first dedicated electrode and MEA manufacturing facility in Swindon, Wiltshire. Of particular relevance are the multimillion € investments in recent years in advanced production scale coating and converting equipment fully contained in clean rooms with Class 1000 capability. The instrumented coating line has interchangeable coating head capability allowing coating of widths up to 650 mm at speeds up to 30 linear m/minute and has sophisticated dimensional control QC systems. The converting line enables the high-speed integration of membranes, catalyst layers and edge seals. Senior personnel have considerable experience in participating in, and leading, government supported R&D projects and JMFC has well-established administrative, financial and legal support groups to manage these projects and ensure successful delivery of the contractual requirements.

http://www.matthey.com

Nedstack fuel cell technology B.V. (NFCT) manufactures and commercializes PEM fuel cell stacks. Our customers are system integrators of PEM fuel cells for stationary and transport applications. Together with partners Nedstack also delivers large stationary fuel cell systems, such as the largest PEM power plant in the world, and have developed and delivered pre-commercial products for road and maritime transport applications. Nedstack was established in 1999 in Arnhem (The Netherlands) as a spin-off from the PEM fuel cell activities within the company AkzoNobel. Since that time, over 300 man years have been spent growing the company commercially. NFCT has developed PEM power plant knowhow in both the Delfzijl PEM 70 kW pilot power plant, the Solvay 1 MW PEM power plant in Lillo, as well as the 2 MW PEM power plant developed and operated under the recent DEMCOPEM project. Nedstack is an active member of the New IG Industry Grouping. In previous FCH-JU funded projects Nedstack has built up a successful track record of technical development as well as overall project management.

http://www.nedstack.com/

GoFlex (Generalized Operational FLEXibility for Integrating Renewables in the Distribution Grid) is an H2020 funded demonstration project on topic LCE-02-2016 – Demonstration of smart grid, storage and system integration technologies with increasing share of renewables: distribution system. GoFlex’s Exploitation Manager will exchange experiences with GRASSGHOPPER on the topics of DSM technology validation, Lateral Project Networking and business model development.

http://www.goflex-community.eu

Nouryon Industrial Chemicals is a worldwide company, producing and marketing high purity salt, chlorine, caustic lye, hydrochloric acid, chloromethanes and monochloroacetic acid (MCA). Hydrogen is produced as a by-product in chlorine production.

Nouryon is a long time partner in FCPP projects (e.g. EOSDEMO, DEMCOPEM). In GRASSHOPPER Nouryon will provide the location and OSBL for the FCPP.

Nouryon will take part in the workshops for development of the FCPP business case.

SWW StadtWerke Wunsiedel is an innovative German based utility (DSO/ BRP) already involved in a range of smart grid projects. SWW wants to refurbish their overall ICT structure and prepare their energy supply and grid management system for future demands and energy markets. For GRASSHOPPER SWW will especially provide their expertise on market regulations issues and business model development.

Tennet is a leading European electricity transmission system operator (TSO) with its main activities in the Netherlands and Germany. With over 23,000 kilometres of high-voltage connections we ensure a secure supply of electricity to 41 million end-users.

Tennet will take part in the workshops for development of the FCPP business case. As grid owner Tennet has in depth knowledge about pricing structures, regulations and specifications relevant to grid support FCPP.