Atura Power Completes Hydrogen Blending Tests at Halton Hills Station

Source: FCW Team | · FUEL CELLS WORKS · | December 15, 2025

Atura Power has completed testing to determine whether hydrogen blending technology is feasible at its Halton Hills generation station.

The local energy producer at Sixth Line and Steeles Avenue, the Independent Electricity Systems Operator and Province of Ontario are betting big on hydrogen as a way to decarbonize the grid and create a new energy economy.

With $4 million from the government’s Hydrogen Innovation Fund, existing infrastructure at the local plant was retrofitted for the tech, colloquially referred to as 'skids.' Over the course of three weeks, blending tests were methodically conducted for a two-fold goal: to verify if the technology works with Atura’s systems and to test the effectiveness of hydrogen blending in generating electricity.

“A lot of the testing was of the instrumentation and the data signals,” said Project Manager Karan Goswami, explaining they focused on the equipment that provides information to the control room, such as signals from the valves to the controls, temperature sensors and flow sensors.

In the other part of the test, the company generated electricity using hydrogen blending in what Goswami calls “a live commercial test.”

During that time, residents may not have realized that their electricity was partially generated using hydrogen without any reported incidents. This was even during the summer’s heat waves, when the province saw some of the highest air conditioning usage in the year.

“It was successful in that front as well,” Goswami said. “We've collected all of the data at this point. We'll analyze it and then provide that feedback to the IESO on what we saw, what we found and we'll continue the conversation with them.”