Dear visitor,
Dear follower,

Exactly two years ago we first demonstrated our hydrogen panel to the world. We had worked on it for 10 years, as KU Leuven scientists. The idea is simple: get water vapor from the air and energy from the sun, which enables you to make green hydrogen anywhere in the world. The unique part of our hydrogen panels is not just that they don’t require any liquid water, but also that we succeeded in building them on a large scale (1.6 m2).

The news spread like a fire. The story was shared broadly, many media published it, also international. Not all news articles were fully accurate, however. We got questions, invitations, messages of support from all over the world. To this day we still receive messages every week, from large corporations as well as interested individuals.

Much has changed in two years time. We are no longer just scientists who keep within the walls of their laboratories. We develop standardized hydrogen panels, investigate methods to upscale production and explore potential applications. This is no longer a research topic. It is a quest for producing more green hydrogen in our world.

The biggest challenges are still ahead of us. The stories in the media sometimes made it seem as if this technology is completely ready to be deployed all over the world. This is not the case. Developing a solid product and bringing it to the world in a sustainable way, is not an easy task. But we accept the challenge. We are developing the equivalent of solar photovoltaics, but for hydrogen. We are working towards a product that is ready for production at large scale, that is sustainable, safe, affordable and with a long lifespan.

The path towards impact, that is the Solhyd project. And we don’t want to walk this path alone. The time has now come to break radio silence and regularly update you about our developments. This project was established thanks to years of academic research, followed by tax payer-funded pilot projects. Society is our angel investor.

Thus this is also your project. Help us to make renewable hydrogen accessible to anyone, anywhere. Follow our activities. Share them with friends. And in the coming years, we hope you may become an even closer part of our story.

– The Solhyd project team