Swiss eSAF producer Synhelion to receive German state funding

Swiss eSAF producer Synhelion will receive funding under the Produktives.NRW programme from the North-Rhine-Westphalia German state government. The funding will support the construction of the companies commercial demonstration plant in Brainergy Park, Jülich.

This is the fourth round of the Produktives.NRW funding programme and draws on EUR 90m from the Just Transition Fund. Synhelion is one of nine projects selected from across the Rhenish and northern Ruhr regions.

Synhelion’s commercial demonstration plant will build on the successful operation of its first plant, DAWN, also in Brainergy Park, Jülich.

“Being selected under the Produktives.NRW program is a strong endorsement of our technology and commercialization strategy, and we are grateful to the state of North Rhine-Westphalia for supporting our project. By building our next plant in Jülich, we are strengthening Germany as an industrial location for renewable synthetic fuels and contributing to a more resilient, diversified, and less importdependent energy supply in Europe,” says Philipp Furler, Co-CEO and Co-Founder of Synhelion.

The Produktives.NRW program implements the European Union’s Strategic Technologies for Europe Platform (STEP) in NRW. It aims to reduce strategic dependencies, promote the development of technologies made in Europe, and strengthen the competitiveness and resilience of industry.  The program is part of the EFRE/JTF NRW 2021–2027 framework and supports strategic projects that strengthen innovation, competitiveness, and the transition toward a more sustainable economy. It is jointly run by NRW’s Ministry of Economic Affairs, Industry, Climate Action and Energy and its Ministry of the Environment, Nature and Transport.