Comhairle nan Eilean Siar
Renewable Energy
H2 Seed Project
Scope and objectives of H2 SEED
H2 SEED will be the first project delivered in the Outer Hebrides covering the whole value chain of hydrogen technologies: hydrogen production from biogas, hydrogen storage, hydrogen filling station and hydrogen use in both stationary and transport applications.
What does the project entail?
The H2 SEED project will consist of the following work packages:
- Project management and coordination
- Detailed engineering
- Project execution
- Operations and maintenance phase
- Training and public awareness raising
During the project execution phase the following infrastructure and equipment will be established:
- Alkaline Electrolyser providing hydrogen production capacity of around 20 Nm3/h
- High pressure hydrogen storage (including a hydrogen compressor and the capability of refuelling k-type cylinders)
- Hydrogen fuelling station, providing the capacity for fuelling the proposed hydrogen vehicles
- Two fuel cell vehicles for the use of Comhairle nan Eilean Siar. The proposed vehicles are hydrogen hybrid ICE/battery Toyota Prius.
What issues does H2 SEED intend to address?
- Provide an innovative end use solution to the currently grid constrained Creed Waste Management Facility’s anaerobic biodigestor
- Continue the groundbreaking achievement epitomised by the establishment of Scotland’s first purpose built hydrogen teaching lab in 2006
- Constitute the first phase of Hebridean Hydrogen Park
What benefits will H2 SEED deliver?
- Increase the lifetime of the biogas engine currently installed in the Creed Waste Management Facility
- Produce a new, renewable, autochthonous and clean fuel (hydrogen) that will be used in Comhairle vehicles
- Create a basic hydrogen infrastructure that could grow in the near future to accomodate other renewable energy sources such as wind energy.
- Increase public awareness of the potential of hydrogen as a fuel
- Develop workforce skills
- Enhance the image of the Outer Hebrides as an innovative, environmentally friendly and dynamic area
Pictorial representation of the project
The hydrogen lab
Project Partners
The H2SEED project is being delivered by Comhairle nan Eilean Siar in conjunction with the following project partners: HIE–Innse Gall; Lews Castle College; The Stornoway Trust; PURE Energy™ Centre LTD and NTDA Energia.
Project Funding
In addition to funding from the project partners, the H2SEED project was grateful to receive £250,000 from the Scottish Executive’s Scottish Renewable Hydrogen and Fuel Cell Support Scheme.
