With today’s groundbreaking ceremony, Synhelion marks the start of construction work on DAWN – the world’s first industrial demonstration plant to produce solar fuels.

Synhelion has become the first company in the world to succeed in producing syngas on an industrial scale using only solar heat as an energy source. The last decisive technical milestone for the industrial production of carbon-neutral jet fuels has thus been reached.

Synhelion is this year’s laureate of the Aerosuisse Award. With this award, Aerosuisse recognizes each year outstanding contributions to the Swiss aerospace industry. The solar fuel technology developed by Synhelion offers a solution to enable net-zero aviation.

Climate tech companies Synhelion and INERATEC have joined forces to decarbonize the transportation sector and help it achieve its ambitious net-zero target.

SWISS and the Lufthansa Group have concluded a strategic collaboration with Synhelion to bring its solar aviation fuel to market. This will make SWISS the first airline in the world to use ‘sun-to-liquid’ fuel.

For the first time ever, CEMEX and Synhelion successfully connected the clinker production process with the Synhelion solar receiver, producing solar clinker. This revolutionary development is an initial step to develop fully solar-driven cement plants.

Synhelion has raised CHF 16 million in its Series B and will use the funding to build and operate the world’s first plant capable of producing solar fuels at an industrial scale.

The German Federal Ministry for Economic Affairs and Energy is supporting the SolarFuels research project by Synhelion and other partners with EUR 3.92 million. Synhelion will use the funding to build the world’s first industrial plant for solar fuels.