Electric Hydrogen Raises $198 Million For Its Green Hydrogen Technology

Electric Hydrogen (EH2) has said that it has raised a $198 million financing to support its efforts in producing ‘cost competitive’ green hydrogen. The round consisted of Series B equity and venture debt from top investors. Fifth Wall Climate Tech led the round, with participation by S2G Ventures, and lenders Silicon Valley Bank and Trinity Capital. Strategic investors included Amazon’s Climate Pledge Fund, Cosan, Equinor Ventures, Honeywell, Mitsubishi Heavy Industries, and Rio Tinto.

Previous investors of Electric Hydrogen like Breakthrough Energy Ventures, Capricorn Partners, Energy Impact Partners, and Prelude Ventures also participated.

The official statement of Electric Hydrogen informed that the funding will help scale-up its electrolyzer technology along with manufacturing and deployment of demonstration projects to generate green hydrogen at large scale for industrial and infrastructure applications.

Electric Hydrogen claims that its patented approach to electrolysis is specially designed for the high-volume, low-cost production required to support massive industrial operations. It claims that its systems run on 100% clean energy, working seamlessly with cheap variable renewable power. And designed for modular construction to make set up and operations simpler.

Raffi Garabedian, CEO and Co-Founder, Electric Hydrogen, mentioned, “Just as importantly, the participation of strategic partners at the forefront of the industries we are poised to decarbonize–energy, mining, logistics, and heavy manufacturing, to name a few–provides vital insight that will facilitate and accelerate our path to market.”

Other founders/co-founders at EH2 include David Eaglesham, Derek Warnick and Dorian West. Both Garabedian and Eaglesham are formerly from First Solar, the thin film focused solar module firm.

“Through our commitment to The Climate Pledge, Amazon has a goal to be net-zero carbon by 2040,” said Kara Hurst, VP at Amazon, one of its key investors.

Nigel Steward, Chief Scientist, Rio Tinto said that his company is investing in Electric Hydrogen as it produces materials that are increasingly required for our society’s transition to a low carbon future.