A powder metallurgy route is described as a promising route to produce highly active Raney-Ni electrodes. An expanded Ni mesh was used as metallic substrate on the surface of which Raney-Ni phases were produced via a heat-treatment step using Al powder at different loads. The overpotential at -300 mA/cm(2) as well as the active surface area were determined to evaluate the electrodes. The results reveal that a high Al loading is necessary to achieve a stable electrode and a high activity for the hydrogen evolution reaction. (c) The Author(s) 2019. Published by ECS.