Thyssenkrupp Nucera electrolyser orders crash by 95% amid green hydrogen market headwinds
German electrolyser manufacturer Thyssenkrupp Nucera has reported a 95% drop in new orders for its green hydrogen business year-on-year in the first quarter of its 2024-25 fiscal year.
The company secured just €5m ($5.21m) of new alkaline electrolyser orders for H2 projects in the quarter (which runs from September to the end of December), compared to the €109m it booked in the same period the previous year.
“The market-specific high volatility in the project business and project delays influenced this development,” the firm noted in a press release.
However, sales under existing orders grew by 30% to €154m as Thyssenkrupp Nucera delivered on those such as the 700MW booked by green steel start-up Stegra for its flagship project in Boden, Sweden, which has scheduled the start of steel production using hydrogen-based direct reduced iron for 2026.
The electrolyser manufacturer noted that €100m of the Q1 2024 order intake had been for Stegra’s project.
The orderbook had also previously been bolstered by the 2.2GW Neom green hydrogen and ammonia complex in Saudi Arabia, which is more than halfway through construction.
“The challenges in the market for green hydrogen remain very high. But the need to implement the decarbonisation strategies of industry also continues. The growth prospects for this market therefore remain intact,” said Werner Ponikwar, Thyssenkrupp Nucera’s CEO.
The electrolyser maker’s earnings before interest and tax for its green hydrogen business remained negative, although the loss halved from €16m in Q1 2024 to €8m in the past quarter.The firm also sells electrolysis equipment for the chlor-alkali process to produce caustic soda, a more profitable business which dragged the overall pre-tax earnings to €8m.
The company continues to forecast between €450m and €550m in sales and earnings before interest and taxes in the “negative mid-double-digit million euro range” for green hydrogen projects in the full fiscal year.
Thyssenkrupp Nucera continues to develop solid-oxide electrolysers alongside its current alkaline offering, with €7m of research and development spend in the past quarter.
The firm had in January seen both its chief financial officer and its chief technology officer step down, to retire and for non-disclosed personal reasons respectively.
Thyssenkrupp Nucera electrolyser orders crash by 95% amid green hydrogen market headwinds | Hydrogen Insight
Thyssenkrupp Nucera electrolyser orders crash by 95% amid green hydrogen market headwinds But the firm continues to report steady quarterly sales as a result of fulfilling existing orders Cell assembly for Thyssenkrupp Nucera's alkaline electrolysersPhoto:
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