{"id":2069385,"date":"2021-01-28T07:48:39","date_gmt":"2021-01-28T07:48:39","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.thebusinessdesk.com\/yorkshire\/?p=2069385"},"modified":"2021-01-28T07:52:20","modified_gmt":"2021-01-28T07:52:20","slug":"transformative-deal-accelerates-energy-specialists-growth","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.thebusinessdesk.com\/yorkshire\/news\/2069385-transformative-deal-accelerates-energy-specialists-growth","title":{"rendered":"&#8216;Transformative deal&#8217; accelerates energy specialist&#8217;s growth"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>ITM Power is continuing to build momentum after securing a &#8220;transformative deal&#8221; late last year.<\/p>\n<p>The hydrogen energy specialist raised \u00a3172m to accelerate its technology and manufacturing strategies and agreed a partnership with energy infrastructure operator Snam.<\/p>\n<p>It also received an order for the world&#8217;s largest PEM electrolyser of 24MW from Linde earlier this month.<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_2051866\" style=\"width: 310px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><img decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-2051866\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-2051866\" src=\"https:\/\/www.thebusinessdesk.com\/_files\/images\/feb_20\/Graham-Cooley-CEO-ITM-Power-002-e1582012651902-300x200.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"200\" \/><p id=\"caption-attachment-2051866\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Dr Graham Cooley, CEO, ITM Power<\/p><\/div>\n<p>Chief executive Dr Graham Cooley said: &#8220;Global energy markets are increasingly recognising the need for the use of green hydrogen within their industrial and pandemic recovery strategies.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;This year we have seen a large number of governments, industrial conglomerates and big corporations announce new plans or strategies to make hydrogen into a feasible option for the energy landscape in the decades to come.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;We have the building blocks in place to make the most of the opportunities presented by global decarbonisation.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>ITM Power operates from the world&#8217;s largest electrolyser factory, which is at Bessemer Park, Sheffield, and has an annual capacity of 1GW.<\/p>\n<p>Its share price has increased by more than 500% in the last year and the company now has a market value of \u00a33.5bn, making it one of Yorkshire&#8217;s most valuable public companies.<\/p>\n<p>The company is listed on the Alternative Investment Market, but its valuation would put it within striking distance of the FTSE 100.<\/p>\n<p>The Snam partnership has made a big impact on its order book, with its total backlog standing at \u00a3124m at the end of October, nearly treble the position a year earlier. Its tender opportunity pipeline has continued to grow, and is up 34% since the period end.<\/p>\n<p>The company had a cash burn of \u00a314m in the six months to October 2020 but held \u00a3187m cash after its November fundraise.<\/p>\n<p>The pre-tax loss of \u00a312m for the half year reflected the growth in headcount &#8211; it now employs more than 200 staff across the UK, USA, France, Germany and Australia &#8211; and the &#8220;inflated costs of operating over three sites in Sheffield&#8221;, which will consolidate into one site resulting from the move to Bessemer Park.<\/p>\n<p>Cooley added: &#8220;The completed move into the new 1GW per annum electrolyser factory at Bessemer Park gives the company a powerful cost reduction trajectory and world beating manufacturing capacity for our record order book and pipeline.&#8221;<\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>ITM Power chief executive Dr Graham Cooley is one of the speakers at the Invest North virtual conference on March 24. He will join Paralympian and Sheffield City Region&#8217;s active travel commissioner Dame Sarah Storey, West Yorkshire Combined Authority chair Cllr Susan Hinchcliffe, and Northern Powerhouse Partnership director Henri Murison to analyse the green transport revolution. <a href=\"http:\/\/investnorth.uk\">Tickets are now on sale &#8211; visit investnorth.uk to find out more.<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/investnorth.uk\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-2069187\" src=\"https:\/\/www.thebusinessdesk.com\/_files\/images\/jan_21\/Invest-North-banner-468.gif\" alt=\"\" width=\"468\" height=\"60\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Share price up 500% in a year, making new gigafactory home to one of Yorkshire&#8217;s largest public 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