Ceres partners with multi-national companies with global ambitions to rapidly enter the growing opportunities within the energy transition.
Our manufacturing partners license our cell and stack technology and system partners license system designs for integration into clean energy technology products. Our global partners bring mass manufacturing capability to our technology innovation expertise and we enable our partners to leverage existing business knowledge, supply chains and in-country teams to embed the technology into many applications.
How we create value for our partners
Highly competitive technology
Ceres’ unique, inherently reversible solid oxide technology reduces cost while maximising efficiency, resulting in highly competitive total cost of ownership. Utilising commonly found materials, it can be mass produced with a limited carbon footprint.
Access to untapped markets
Ceres offers cutting-edge technology, with distinctive advantages of temperature and efficiency, ideally suited to delivering clean, low-cost and secure power systems and supporting the decarbonisation of hard-to-abate industrial sectors.
Accelerated market entry
Licensees can leapfrog into markets for power and hydrogen without lengthy research and development, supported by Ceres’ team to implement localised supply chains, skills and manufacturing.
Leveraging world-leading R&D resources
Licensees can leverage Ceres’ 20+ years of research and innovation in solid oxide technology, instead focusing on their own core business strengths in industrialisation, mass production and commercialisation.
Ceres provides accelerated access to global, growing markets
Fuel cell market opportunity
by 2030
22GW
Reference: BNEF. New Energy Outlook 2024.
Electrolyser market opportunity
by 2040
1,766GW
Estimated global electrolyser demand, reference: BNEF. New Energy Outlook 2024.
Our partners
Technology partner of choice
Innovation is the art of creating value from good ideas and particularly from good science and engineering. You need great people, ambitious goals, and the right environment to drive innovation and at Ceres we have all three.
When our partners license our technology, staying at the leading edge of our technology is ultimately what they get, and that is why we continually invest in building and protecting our intellectual property. With over 150 patent families, Ceres has patents that cover the whole value chain from fundamental material science concepts to stack designs, manufacturing and system concepts, as well as in the application of our technology.
Ongoing R&D and engineering effort to ensure Ceres retains its technological competitive advantage. Our partners fully understand our IP protections and their access to our technology, so they know that they are not just buying what is on the shelf but investing in a long-term relationship that keeps them and Ceres at the forefront of this industry.
As part of a technology licensing model, we can provide the below turnkey solutions:
Cell and stack technology design packs
- Complete design packs
- Verification of data and test methods at cell, stack and representative systems
- Risk management, including hazard assessment and design FMEA
- Life-time assurance framework and supporting long-term test data
- Supply-chain information, including suppliers and detailed cost models
Manufacturing pack
- Factory blueprint with machine specifications and indicative costings
- Process specifications with supporting capability assessment
- Bought-in material specifications
- Critical to Quality specifications and recommended approaches to Quality Control/Assurance
3 new regions added in 2024
Progress so far
Read more about each of our partners as they move towards production and beyond.
Thermax
In June 2025 Thermax inaugurated its solid oxide electrolyser cell ("SOEC") pilot facility in Pune, a key milestone in its green hydrogen journey.
In collaboration with Ceres, the facility will develop India’s first pressurised SOEC system.
Denso Corporation
Denso and Ceres are currently working in partnership to enable Denso to produce Ceres’ current and future generations of stack technology under licence for hydrogen production applications, in line with Denso's aim to establish a hydrogen supply chain.
Delta Electronics
Delta Electronics and Ceres are currently working together to integrate Ceres' energy stack technology with Delta's own industry-leading power electronics and thermal management technologies to develop solid oxide products for end applications.
Doosan Fuel Cells
In June 2025, Doosan Fuel Cell's 50MW solid oxide fuel cell factory was officially opened. With meticulous planning and dedication everything is now ready for the start of commercial production, paving the way for an efficient and productive future.
Shell plc
In June 2025 Shell and Ceres announced that hydrogen was now being produced at Shell's R&D centre in Bangalore following our ambitious joint "first-of-a-kind" MW scale solid oxide electrolyser cell ("SOEC") demonstrator programme in India.
Weichai Power Co Ltd
Our partner Weichai Power continues to make great progress undertaking a number of solid oxide fuel cell ("SOFC") trials within China across a number of commercial applications.
