COPE accelerates green hydrogen innovation through a shared testing infrastructure

Connecting testing facilities

The Netherlands hosts a range of electrolysis testing facilities, from small-scale laboratories to megawatt test centres. To enable broad deployment of innovations, stronger connections between these facilities are needed. Knowledge sharing is equally important: without shared learning, it takes longer to correct errors and improve technologies.

Towards a complete testing infrastructure

Through COPE we are building a coordinated, accessible network of test locations. This accelerates validation and scale-up of new technologies. It also enables standardisation of test types and sites, improving reliability, facilitating translation to larger scales and reducing costs.

COPE is also developing an Electrolyser Intelligence Platform for data analysis. This will allow aggregated, anonymised data to be shared without compromising intellectual property.

Key priorities

COPE supports faster innovation and scale-up by focusing on three priorities:

Distributed test centre
Providing accessible, streamlined and scalable tests by creating a single entry point for facilities, a harmonised approach for consistent and reliable results, and lower testing costs for users.

Electrolyser Intelligence Platform
Shifting from isolated analyses to collective learning through advanced data analytics, improved performance estimation and federated learning—enabling anonymised collective analyses and decentralised modelling.

Harmonised testing, benchmarking, certification
Enhancing result reliability with harmonised test protocols and hardware at all scales, advancing certification, and clarifying the implications of scale-up.

For companies and researchers

COPE offers access to multiple testing facilities that best match specific needs in terms of scale, use case and equipment type. The focus is on water electrolysis and low-temperature electrolysis.

Join COPE

Members gain access to:

• testing facilities at all scales

• test protocols and equipment

• insights and knowledge from peers