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THE NEW WRIGHTBUS HYDROGEN DOUBLE DECKER THE PLANNED CARBON CAPTURE FACILITY AS PART OF THE HYNET PROJECT

energy, including solar, onshore wind, system that can also feed wider demand hydrogen heating in homes and will
future offshore wind and biomethane sectors, like buildings. see the construction of a hydrogen
to support a transition to zero carbon Ollie added: “IGEM is working closely production, storage and demonstration
gas; developing the business cases for with some of the SWIC partners, and facility at Energy Park Fife in Methil.
accelerating to a hydrogen economy for we hope to be successful in a bid In early October, the firm signed an
energy demand in buildings, transport for funding to work with one of the agreement with hydrogen technology
and power generation; and delivering industrial facilities in its adoption provider Nel ASA to supply the
demonstrations through a consumer of hydrogen for high temperature electrolyser for what it claims is a
trial of hydrogen fuel cell vehicles process heating.” world-first hydrogen-to-homes heating
and a hydrogen-ready hybrid heating network in Levenmouth on the east
system. Ollie visited the site in October HYCOMPACT coast of Scotland.
to hear from the Secretary of State for HyCompact is a Wales & West Utilities The project aims to supply the gas to
Wales Simon Hart and spoke with his project, being carried out with UK about 300 homes initially and, based on
colleague Stephen Crabbe MP about Power Networks, to demonstrate the the outcome of the trial, quickly scale
the pathway for deploying hydrogen efficiencies of installing a single-unit this up to include more homes and
for home heating, power generation, hybrid heating system to further businesses.
transport and industry. develop customer acceptability, Ollie said: “I visited the H100 site on
Ollie said: “This project is perhaps minimise disruption, improve cost the way up to Glasgow to see for myself
not as well-known as some of the efficiency and enhance smart controls the wind tribune that will be generating
others, but the Milford Haven Energy with boiler modulation. power to produce hydrogen from water
Kingdom partners are using funding By integrating PassivSystems’ and which will be supplied throughout
from Innovate UK to develop a advanced, grid enabled smart controls the network by SGN to hundreds of
detailed design for a hydrogen-based with a HyCompact unit, WWU will homes in the Levenmouth area.
smart local energy system. There gather in-home performance data and “These homes will be using appliances
are two demonstrator aspects of this demonstrate aggregated domestic developed by the Hy4Heat programme
work; one is an electrolyster and demand response simulations. from BEIS to gain an understanding and
hydrogen refueller for Riversimple’s Ollie visited the HyCompact trial experience what it’s like to be cooking
RASA hydrogen car and the other is home a couple of months ago. He said: and heating their homes with hydrogen
a hydrogen hybrid heating system “The unit is a little bit bigger than the and IGEM is looking forward to playing
installed in a commercial building. average boiler but you don’t need to our role in supporting this.”
“Part of the project is identifying fit a heat pump outside your home Ollie also had the opportunity to view
how to integrate hydrogen into the and can be installed by a normal Gas some of the work SGN is undertaking in
energy system architecture and the Safe registered engineer, just like a the field of biomethane. The network has
development of a hydrogen trading normal boiler. been leading the development of the UK’s
platform for producers and consumers.” “This project builds on the work of biomethane industry for over ten years,
Milford Haven is situated within the the Freedom Project, which showed supporting clients through all aspects of
South Wales Industrial Cluster (SWIC), how these kinds of systems can gas-to-grid delivery, including finance,
a partnership between Welsh industry, optimise investment across the energy design and build and operations phases.
energy suppliers, infrastructure system. For example, there seems to SGN has worked on approximately 30
providers, academia, legal sector, be a real appetite for social housing biomethane plant installations including
service providers and public sector landlords to use this technology in a biomethane injection and blending hub
organisations. SWIC has been awarded their housing retrofit programmes. The at Portsdown Hill.
£21.5million from UKRI’s Industrial next step for this compact technology All gas networks expect to increase
Decarbonisation programme for two is to get it to the point of being their biomethane injection into the
projects to map what is needed to hydrogen-ready.” grid to deliver an increase in renewable
support South Wales in becoming a net energy over the coming years, with SGN
zero carbon region by 2050 and design H100 FIFE AND BIOMETHANE aiming to increase volumes from being
its deployment, which includes the SGN’s H100 neighbourhood trial aims enough for approximately 200,000 to
plan for a local transmission hydrogen to demonstrate 100 per cent green 450,000 homes by the end of GD2.

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