- Funding to support just energy transition
Projects to drive innovation in the production, storage and
distribution of renewable hydrogen are to receive £7 million of
Scottish Government funding.
First Minister announced the Hydrogen
Innovation Scheme funding while addressing delegates at the
All-Energy conference in Glasgow.
The investment will support 32 projects, including:
- a study into treating water from the River Clyde to produce
hydrogen cheaply
- the establishment of a green hydrogen production learning,
test and research hub in Stornoway
- a scheme to use waste heat generated from wind turbines on
the Isle of Lewis to create hydrogen
- a Hydrogen Innovation Hub at Glasgow Airport for storage and
distribution
- a study examining the use of tidal energy around Yell in the
Shetland Islands to produce hydrogen
The First Minister said:
“We have committed £100 million, over this parliamentary session,
to supporting the green hydrogen sector.
“Part of that funding has been allocated to the Hydrogen
Innovation Scheme, which supports feasibility studies, technical
demonstrations and testing facilities for new ideas about how to
produce, store and distribute hydrogen.
“I am pleased to be able to confirm today that through this
scheme, grants worth a total of £7 million have been allocated to
32 different projects.
“The projects cover a wide range of different areas - such as how
to produce and store hydrogen on floating windfarms, and how to
decarbonise agriculture and forestry work in rural areas.
Together, they show the range of possible ways in which hydrogen
can be produced, used and stored. They highlight the expertise
and innovation that is already such an important part of the
sector. And, of course, they demonstrate the scale of the
opportunities that hydrogen can create.”
Comhairle nan Eilean Siar, University of The Highlands (UHI) and
Islands Outer Hebrides and PlusZero have been awarded £1,129,000
for a green hydrogen production learning, test and research hub
at Creed Park, Stornoway.
Comhairle nan Eilean Siar Head of Municipal Services David
Macleod said:
“Project partners Comhairle nan Eilean Siar, UHI Outer Hebrides
and PlusZero Ltd are delighted that the Creed Hydrogen Skills and
Innovation Centre has been selected to receive funding.
“This ground-breaking public, private and university
collaboration will help deliver the skilled workforce and robust
hydrogen technology needed to support the Outer Hebrides
ambitions to be Scotland’s leading green hydrogen production hub
and play a key role in achieving the Scottish Government’s
ambition for delivering 5 gigawatts of renewable and low-carbon
hydrogen production by 2030.”
Background
All-Energy Conference:
First Minister’s speech – 10 May 2023
The Hydrogen Innovation Scheme was launched in June 2022 and is
targeted at supporting innovation under the themes of renewable
hydrogen production, hydrogen storage and distribution, and
integration of hydrogen into Scotland’s energy system.
The 32 projects awarded funding are below:
|
Project
|
Lead organisation
|
Description
|
Funding awarded
|
|
H2GEN
|
Cygnas Solutions
|
Feasibility study of H2GEN hydrogen storage system.
|
£147,610
|
|
HyBrine
|
sHYp BV Ltd
|
Feasibility study for project HyBrine, which aims to
achieve low cost, efficient, and sustainable H2
production by using seawater as the water source and
through technology advancements that avoid the need for
desalination systems and enable more durable and
reliable electrolysis.
|
£150,000
|
|
HyFloat
|
Wood Group
|
Feasibility study for HyFloat, a floating wind platform
that houses renewable hydrogen production equipment and
stores the hydrogen within the buoyant structure.
|
£150,000
|
|
Combining grid constrained wind and solar with quarry
water supply for green hydrogen production
|
Chartmount Holdings Ltd
|
Study which will examine the feasibility of utilising
multiple renewable electricity sources to power an
electrolyser that would use water in a co-located quarry
to produce green hydrogen.
|
£63,165
|
|
Isle of Lewis Hydrogen Supply Project
|
Fortescue Future Industries
|
Study focusing on onshore wind projects on the Isle of
Lewis for green hydrogen production.
|
£150,000
|
|
Green Hydrogen and Oxygen Supply from Tidal energy
(GHOST)
|
Nova Innovation Ltd
|
Study examining the feasibility of using tidal energy
around the Shetland Island of Yell for the production of
hydrogen and oxygen production for local use, including
as rocket fuel for the Saxavord Space Centre.
|
£131,017
|
|
Mobile hydrogen unit to utilise grid curtailed generation
|
Temporis Capital Ltd
|
Study that will investigate the feasibility of utilising
a portable green hydrogen electrolyser to produce
hydrogen using power from renewable generators in
Scotland during grid curtailment.
|
£110,420
|
|
HyDesal
|
Waterwhelm Ltd
|
Study to explore routes to improve the membrane design of
Waterwhelm’s desalination technology and the feasibility
of implementing this improved technology with
commercially-available renewable hydrogen production
units using waste heat.
|
£149,759
|
|
GHigha: Green Hydrogen for the Isle of Gigha
|
BPP Technical Services Ltd
|
Concept design for a Green Hydrogen Production System
with the Isle of Gigha as the case study.
|
£150,000
|
|
Next-generation optical solution for the detection of
hydrogen contaminants
|
Chromacity Ltd
|
Study to develop improved process controls for the
hydrogen supply chain through the detection of
contaminants/pollution.
|
£150,000
|
|
Hybrid Hydrogen Storage and Distribution
|
Glacier Energy Services Holdings Ltd
|
Feasibility study into the optimum design of low-cost,
lightweight hydrogen storage and distribution
vessels.
|
£149,995
|
|
Glasgow Airport Hydrogen Innovation Hub
|
Glasgow Airport Ltd
|
Study to test the feasibility of a hydrogen production,
storage and distribution hub at Glasgow Airport.
|
£150,000
|
|
Feasibility of Explainable AI to support decision making
as applied to hydrogen generation
|
Intelligent Plant Ltd
|
Study to develop a decision support system and use
explainable artificial intelligence to support logistics
solutions for hydrogen production.
|
£148,878,90
|
|
Tank Testing of Hydrogen Offshore Transfer System
(TestHOTS)
|
Jebb Smith Ltd
|
Feasibility study to refine the design and functionality
of a land-sea interface for hydrogen transport and
distribution.
|
£149,289
|
|
Optimisation of Proton Conducting Ceramic Tubular Cells
for Efficient Hydrogen Production
|
ZEM Fuel Systems Limited
|
Feasibility study to explore the creation of efficient
hydrogen production from steam to hydrogen to provide a
low cost, efficient, durable, and zero carbon production
mechanism.
|
£148,028
|
|
Advanced Decoupled Electrolysis Demonstrator Project
|
Clyde Hydrogen Systems Ltd
|
Project to demonstrate novel technology for the
innovative low-cost, efficient and sustainable production
of renewable hydrogen.
|
£744,189
|
|
Discontinuum Modelling for a Lined Rock Hydrogen Storage
Shaft
|
Gravitricity Ltd
|
Study to examine the feasibility of storing hydrogen in a
purpose sunk shaft within a rock shaft with mixed
geology.
|
£149,464
|
|
Orkney sea water electrolysis project
|
Locogen Ltd
|
Study to investigate the feasibility of using seawater as
the feedwater to an electrolyser system.
|
£112,838
|
|
H2Shore - Hydrogen coastal storage and distribution
|
Port of Aberdeen
|
Study to investigate the feasibility of establishing
underwater hydrogen storage at the South Harbour at Port
of Aberdeen.
|
£150,000
|
|
StorageUpscale
|
Scottish Gas Network
|
Feasibility study into how Scotland’s geology can
integrate with innovative engineered storage solutions to
provide capacity for intermediate scale (>1TWh)
storage to bridge the existing hydrogen storage capacity
gap.
|
£149,000
|
|
Large Scale Floating Hydrogen Production Offshore
Scotland
|
Subsea7
|
A concept study programme that will focus on offshore
production of green hydrogen on a Floating Hydrogen
Production Unit (FHPU) located close to offshore
windfarms.
|
£150,000
|
|
Green Hydrogen Integration at Sullom Voe
|
EnQuest Heather Ltd
|
A study to assess the feasibility of producing hydrogen
from treated water from the Sullom Voe terminal water
treatment plant (site rainwater runoff and process waste
water) via electrolysis, then storage/distribution via
existing obsolete O&G infrastructure.
|
£149,633
|
|
DESOW (Decoupled Electrolyser, Storage and Offshore Wind)
|
Invinity Energy (UK) Ltd
|
Updated 3/5/23 - Feasibility study to establish the
applicability of using offshore wind to power a novel
decoupled electrolyser to support hydrogen production,
energy storage, and on demand electricity generation via
vanadium redox flow batteries.
|
£131,243
|
|
River Clyde for Hydrogen Production and Reoxygenation
Project
|
Marubeni Europower Limited
|
Study to establish a process of river water treatment for
supplying to electrolysers, which should overcome issues
of water availability (and cost) to produce renewable
hydrogen.
|
£150,000
|
|
Off-grid Green Hydrogen Production Demonstration
|
ORE Catapult Development Services Limited
|
Study to assess the feasibility of an off-grid green
hydrogen production demonstration project.
|
£147,529.00
|
|
HySKUA
|
EMEC
|
A study that will focus on offshore production of green
hydrogen on a floating hydrogen production hub (HySKUA)
co-located with Scottish offshore windfarms.
|
£150,000
|
|
H2 Auxinvest
|
Green Cat Hydrogen Ltd
|
Development of an open-source software tool that will
improve the uptake of low TRL equipment through plugging
a gap in available information about low TRL components
from small manufacturers.
|
£25,049.20
|
|
Remote Rural Hydrogen Production
|
SRUC
|
Study that aims to support an innovative solution to the
decarbonisation of agricultural and forestry operations.
|
£129,972
|
|
Accessible Green Hydrogen Test and Demonstration Facility
for Scotland
|
University of Glasgow
|
Creation of demonstration and testing facilities for
low-to-mid and mid-to-late Technology Readiness Level
(TRL) hydrogen technologies, enabling such technologies
to be developed and commercialised in Scotland.
|
£280,550
|
|
Creed Hydrogen Skills and Innovation Centre
|
Comhairle Nan Eilean Siar
|
Establishment of a green hydrogen production learning,
test and research hub at Creed Park, Stornoway which aims
to accelerate the development of a hydrogen ecosystem in
the Outer Hebrides.
|
£1,129,000
|
|
Construction Hydrogen Hub
|
Balfour Beatty
|
Conversion of an existing Operation and Maintenance depot
into a Construction Hydrogen Hub to demonstrate the use
of and catalyse demand for hydrogen in the construction
industry.
|
£243,000
|
|
Comprehensive one stop hydrogen storage testing (Hy-One)
|
National Subsea Centre, Robert Gordon University (RGU)
|
Hy-One will provide a testing facility to support the
development, demonstration, and implementation of small-
to large-scale compressed hydrogen storage vessels and
their accessories.
|
£1,198,000
|
