The EReTech project aims to devel­op and demon­strate a new, decen­tral­iz­able, scal­able elec­tri­fied reac­tor tech­nol­o­gy for pro­duc­ing hydro­gen (H2) using renew­able bio­gas as feed­stock. It aligns with objec­tives relat­ed to process inten­si­fi­ca­tion, cost reduc­tion, envi­ron­men­tal impact reduc­tion, and renew­able ener­gy sources. The project tar­gets sig­nif­i­cant improve­ments in key per­for­mance indi­ca­tors (KPIs), includ­ing a 40% reduc­tion in CO2 emis­sions, over 50% reduc­tion in reac­tor size, and approx­i­mate­ly 50% reduc­tion in ener­gy input. Spe­cif­ic objec­tives include reac­tor design opti­mi­sa­tion, devel­op­ment of nov­el cat­a­lysts, advance­ment in process under­stand­ing, and enhance­ment of ener­gy effi­cien­cy, prod­uct yield, and reac­tor robustness.The project also focus­es on pilot test­ing, indus­tri­al scal­a­bil­i­ty, inte­gra­tion with renew­able elec­tric­i­ty sources, and up-and-down­stream pro­cess­ing. Safe­ty fea­si­bil­i­ty is addressed through inher­ent­ly safer design con­cepts and rig­or­ous safe­ty engi­neer­ing strate­gies. Addi­tion­al­ly, the project aims to demon­strate indus­tri­al and tech­no-eco­nom­ic fea­si­bil­i­ty, show­ing that the elec­tri­fied reac­tor tech­nol­o­gy can sig­nif­i­cant­ly reduce CO2 emis­sions with­out increas­ing oper­a­tional costs.Advancements com­pared to tra­di­tion­al steam methane reform­ing (SMR) include high­er ener­gy effi­cien­cy, small­er reac­tor size, sim­pli­fied process con­fig­u­ra­tion, low­er cap­i­tal and oper­a­tional expens­es, eas­i­er mon­i­tor­ing and con­trol, and improved safe­ty. The project tar­gets Tech­nol­o­gy Readi­ness Lev­el 6 (TRL6) by the end of the project, demon­strat­ing the tech­nol­o­gy in an indus­tri­al­ly rel­e­vant envi­ron­ment. Ambi­tions include scal­ing up a 250 kW elec­tri­cal­ly heat­ed SMR, devel­op­ing con­tainer­ized solu­tions for decen­tral­ized hydro­gen pro­duc­tion, and design­ing reac­tor and process solu­tions for cen­tral­ized reform­ing plants. The con­sor­tium aims for imme­di­ate mar­ket entry post-demon­stra­tion, inte­grat­ing the val­ue chain for hydro­gen pro­duc­tion, stor­age, and uti­liza­tion, and offer­ing solu­tions for both decen­tral­ized and cen­tral­ized appli­ca­tions.