COLUMBUS, Ind. — Cummins will begin manufacturing electrolyzers, the first in the U.S. to do so. An electrolyzer separates water into oxygen and hydrogen, and when the electrolyzer system is operated using renewable electricity, the hydrogen it produces is carbon-free.
Electrolyzer production will take place in Fridley, Minnesota, starting at 500 megawatts (MW) of manufacturing capacity annually, scalable to 1 gigawatt (GW) in the future.
The green hydrogen can be stored as a compressed gas or a liquid and used as an energy-dense, clean power source to decarbonize heavy-duty transportation and industrial processes, the company says.
This new production adds to Cummins’ growing global electrolyzer development and manufacturing footprint. Its electrolyzer manufacturing capacity at its Belgium and Mississauga, Canada, sites was recently expanded. Cummins is also building two new electrolyzer factories in Spain and China.
