There's no shortage of lists to summarize the past year. But here at Darcy, we have a unique data set with activity on Darcy Connect from over 10,000 energy company Connect Users. That data shows which innovators saw the most activity on Darcy Connect in the form of views, clicks, likes, follows, meetings scheduled, etc. Combined with analysis from our Research Team about technology developments and market traction, we have selected the Top 10 Innovators from 2022 in each of our coverage channels. This is our way of saying: "these are the innovators that your peers are most interested in, so you should definitely go and learn more about them". In this article, you will find the Innovators that made it on the list in the Hydrogen category of Energy Transition.

But there is far more detail to look at than what you'll find here.

The Innovator names are all linked to their Storefront, where you can find in-depth information on their products, business model, and our Research Team's opinion; Connect Users are even able to schedule meetings with the Innovators through the "take action" tab on their page.

• In the month of January you will find weekly articles like this with Top 10 lists from our Oil & Gas, Power & Utilities, Sustainability, and Energy Transition research programs.
• All articles will be followed by a Darcy Live Event. On the Event page, you can find the full Darcy Live schedule for Q1.

Here you can find our first of two Best of 2022 for Energy Transition events, scheduled for January 17, 2023.

The Top 10 Innovators from 2022 in the Energy Transition Hydrogen vertical are (in random order):

"Turquoise" Hydrogen

• C-Zero uses pyrolysis with molten salts/metal as a catalyst to generate low carbon hydrogen from methane, along with a solid carbon byproduct that can be sequestered.
• Aurora Hydrogen has developed a singular methane pyrolysis system that uses microwave energy to produce turquoise hydrogen. They are focused on developing distributed, modular, plug and play reactors.
• Monolith (former Monolith Materials) is a turquoise hydrogen manufacturing company that uses plasma methane pyrolysis, based on the Kvaerner process, to convert natural gas to hydrogen and ammonia while co-producing carbon black. Monolith is targeting large scale plants and their model depends on revenue from Carbon black.
• Ekona Power produces turquoise hydrogen from a Tri-Generation Pyrolysis (TGP) system from natural gas. By using pyrolysis, they produce solid carbon as a by-product. Their reactor uses the principles of pulse-combination and high speed gas dynamics to dissociate feedstock methane with the goal of solving carbon fouling issues that plague other pyrolysis platforms.

Hydrogen Storage

• GKN Hydrogen develops low temperature, low pressure, solid state metal-hydride based hydrogen storage technology as well as fully integrated plug and play P2P systems.

"Blue" Hydrogen (and beyond)

• Bayotech BayoTech provides distributed, on-site SMR based hydrogen production systems in a modular, scalable, and rapidly deployable technology covering the hydrogen generation, transport, storage and fueling solutions.
• Proton Technologies is a Canadian company that produces hydrogen from mature oil fields via in-situ gasification and injection of oxygen into the oil reservoir to heat the hydrocarbons, causing a series of chain reactions that split hydrogen from carbon in the oil.

"Green" Hydrogen

• Plug Power is a green hydrogen company providing hydrogen solutions in the material handling, mobility, and stationary power markets through fuel cell technology as well as electrolyzers. They provide solutions (including storage) down the value chain in both liquid and gaseous form.

Low Carbon Power Generation/Modified Combustion

• PSM, in partnership with Thomassen Energy, delivers innovative, clean energy solutions to power plants worldwide as part of the Hanwha Impact division of Hanwha Group gas turbine services organization.
• Bloom Energy is a developer of solid-oxide fuel cell systems and microgrids for on-site power generation among other energy applications.

Do let us know if you have any questions or comments about this list in the comment section below.

In addition to wrapping up 2022, January is also the month that we are setting our research priorities for 2023. We are member driven and focused on solving your challenges. So, I'm inviting you to share your topics of interest with us in this survey. You are welcome to fill out all of the sections that apply.

You are also welcome to share any links to road map documents (or send them to lindseym@darcypartners.com.)