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.