Estonian energy company, Alexela and cleantech start-up, PowerUP Energy Technologies, unveiled the first-ever Smart Hydrogen cabinet at Alexela’s refilling station at the Kakumäe harbor in Estonia’s capital city, Tallinn.
The first of its kind smart hydrogen cabinet is targeted towards small application users of hydrogen including sailing boats, yachts, and campervans. To show mobility of the smart cabinet, it will soon be shifted to a more commercial harbour in Tallinn located in Pirita.
The smart cabinet is fully automated and filled with lightweight hydrogen cylinders, provided by PowerUP Energy Technologies. With almost no human contact, the smart cabinets will be operated by a mobile payments system application called Paytailor, which makes mobile payments easy for its customers. In addition to this, the application provides its customers a seamless experience of operating the smart cabinet. The customers can open the smart cabinet, choose the number of hydrogen tanks they want to rent, and make the payment, all via the application.
Powered by solar panels, the cabinet is a smart way for sailors, campervan owners, or any other small application users of hydrogen to easily rent out hydrogen cylinders using an app.
Cleantech start-up, PowerUP Energy Technologies, has provided type 3 and type 4 hydrogen cylinders for this venture. Speaking at the launch, Dr. Ivar Kruusenberg, Founder and CEO at PowerUP Energy Technologies said
“Hydrogen has a promising role to play in achieving decarbonisation targets globally.”
“With hydrogen presence in Estonia being fairly limited due to lack of large-scale hydrogen production in the country as well as very few fuel cells implemented in real applications, this smart hydrogen cabinet will be the first step in Estonia’s energy transition to the most sought-after clean energy fuel – Hydrogen. Through this collaboration, we are reassuring our commitment to provide clean and safe energy solutions for everyone”
The launch of the pilot hydrogen smart cabinet in Estonia is a simple and cost-effective solution to hydrogen distribution and based on the response from the customers in Estonia, it is planned to be duplicated in other European countries as well.
Talking about the smart cabinet launch Marti Hääl, Executive Vice President of the Estonian energy company Alexela, says that they have the readiness to supply hydrogen with the rising demand, Marti added:
“The hydrogen solution presented with PowerUP is an example of how the value chain of hydrogen is actually doable.”
“The task today regarding hydrogen is to get enough consumers to spur the production in order to achieve competitive value for the consumers. But definitely, we at Alexela are ready for hydrogen entering the transport sector wider.”
About PowerUP Energy Technologies
PowerUP Energy Technologies is an Estonia-based cleantech start-up that produces best-in-class hydrogen fuel cell-based electric generators and proton exchange membrane fuel cells. PowerUP’s technology is based on their co-founders’ 15 years of scientific research in the field of fuel cells and energy technologies. Their generators have diverse use cases in industries such as marine, telecommunication, military, construction, hospitals, off-grid homes, and rescue forces to name a few. UP® product range is sustainable since it emits zero-emission, compact and lightweight, operates silently and requires minimal maintenance. Their first commercial products include 200W and W400 portable generators and they are soon launching 1kW and 6kW generators. PowerUP Energy Technologies serves as a sustainable alternative to power generation in today’s world and helps its users in various industries to reach the global net-zero targets.
About Alexela
Alexela is an Estonian company that mainly deals in the field of energy. The company has a unique product portfolio in Estonia, which includes, electricity, natural and biogas, balloon gas, container gas and through 104 service stations throughout Estonia, also all alternatives for car refuelling. Alexela develops H2 terminal in Paldiski, Estonia and LNG terminal in Hamina, Finland and also innovative pumped hydro energy storage in Paldiski, to facilitate large-scale storage of renewable electricity produced in Estonia.
For further information, please contact:
Taarini Atal
Head of Public Relations
PowerUP Energy Technologies
taarini@powerup-tech.com
+372 58909107
Marit Liik
Communications Manager
Alexela
marit.liik@alexela.ee
+372 5664 9619
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