Category: Project news

Two CHARGE partners — DTU Energy and DynElectro — have published in Nature Communications the longest and lowest-degradation operation reported to date for a full solid oxide electrolysis stack. An industrial 70-cell stack ran for 25,000 hours of steam electrolysis under AC:DC operation — the frequency-dependent operating strategy developed by DynElectro, in which the stack…

Meet Kacper Caputa, a PhD student in chemical engineering at COAT-IT — the Polish SME responsible in CHARGE for scaling up electroplated protective coatings for SOEC interconnects. Kacper specialises in electrochemical surface engineering. His research experience centres on the electrodeposition of metallic and composite coatings and the assessment of their surface and corrosion-resistance properties, with…

The first peer-reviewed paper acknowledging CHARGE, in Advanced Functional Materials: direct nanoscale evidence of how impurities poison Ni/YSZ electrodes under electrolysis operation. Open access.

Aparna Peethambaran joins the CHARGE team at Forschungszentrum Jülich as a PhD student, working on stack design, assembly and testing.

Nine months in, the partners met at Gdańsk Tech on 26-27 August 2026 to review progress across all work packages, followed by a Steering Committee session.

A CHARGE talk on chromium poisoning and protective coatings, given on 24 August 2026 in the Electrolysis and Fuel Cells session of HYPOTHESIS XXI in Warsaw.

DTU presented CHARGE work on the durability of Ni/YSZ-supported electrolysis cells at high current density at the 17th European SOFC & SOE Forum, Lucerne, 30 June – 3 July 2026.

All six partners met at DTU Energy on 20-21 January 2026 to set the first year of work: baselines, test matrices, the stack build schedule and the AC:DC campaign.

Six partners from Denmark, Germany and Poland start a 36-month effort to make solid oxide electrolysis cheap enough and durable enough for industrial green hydrogen.