Archiv: Solhyd Project (KU Leuven)


08.11.2026 - 17:13 [ Solhyd.eu ]

[PV Magazine] World’s first solar park featuring hydrogen-producing PV modules takes shape in Belgium

(November 10, 2025)

A 2 MW solar park in Wallonia, Belgium, will rely 50 kW of hydrogen-producing solar modules developed by Solhyd, a spin-off from KU Leuven. The installation will be the first demonstration of Solhyd’s technology at a commercially-relevant scale.

A consortium of Belgian companies has signed a memorandum of understanding (MoU) to build an energy system that features hydrogen-producing solar modules in Wallonia, Belgium.

Billed as the world’s first solar hydrogen park, the installation will see 50 kW of hydrogen-producing solar modules developed by Solhyd integrated into a traditional 2 MW solar park that is connected to battery storage.

The site, which will begin operating next year, will be capable of producing both electricity and hydrogen from solar energy. It is set to operate for five years.

08.11.2026 - 17:00 [ Katholieke Universiteit Leuven ]

Green energy breakthrough thanks to KU Leuven scientists

(02 October 2019)

For over a decade, Professor Johan Martens and Drs. Tom Bosserez, Jan Rongé and Christos Trompoukis have been developing a ‘solar hydrogen panel’, i.e. a solar panel that can create hydrogen from the water vapour in the air. Using sunlight, moisture taken from the air – i.e. no liquid water – is split into hydrogen on the one hand, and oxygen molecules on the other.

The panel is able to directly convert no less than 15 per cent of sunlight into hydrogen gas, Which is a world record

11.01.2025 - 22:20 [ Solhyd.eu ]

The technology: A solar panel that produces hydrogen

Air contains moisture. The water molecules in the air are captured by the panel when the airstream enters the device.

Solhyd technology can be applied in many locations around the globe. Only the most arid places on Earth are expected to be too dry for hydrogen panels to work efficiently.

03.09.2024 - 13:50 [ Solhyd.eu ]

Successful production of hydrogen panels

(November 15, 2024)

Solhyd not only develops technology to produce hydrogen from air and sunlight. We also develop methods to produce that technology in a cost-effective and reliable manner. Efficient production, with cost reductions driven by scale benefits, will eventually lead to the lowest cost approach to make hydrogen from solar energy.

We took the first step in that process this year.

03.09.2024 - 13:31 [ Katholieke Universiteit Leuven ]

Green energy breakthrough thanks to KU Leuven scientists

(02 October 2019)

For over a decade, Professor Johan Martens and Drs. Tom Bosserez, Jan Rongé and Christos Trompoukis have been developing a ‘solar hydrogen panel’, i.e. a solar panel that can create hydrogen from the water vapour in the air. Using sunlight, moisture taken from the air – i.e. no liquid water – is split into hydrogen on the one hand, and oxygen molecules on the other.

The panel is able to directly convert no less than 15 per cent of sunlight into hydrogen gas, Which is a world record