HELES: Hydrogen Enabled Local Energy Systems

Completed

Renewable Energy Sources(Solar Energy, Photovoltaics)
Other Power and Storage Technologies(Energy storage)
Hydrogen and Fuel Cells(Hydrogen, Hydrogen end uses (incl. combustion; excl. fuel cells))
Hydrogen and Fuel Cells(Hydrogen, Hydrogen production)
Hydrogen and Fuel Cells(Hydrogen, Hydrogen transport and distribution)

Applied Research and Development
Final stage Development and Demonstration

ENGINEERING AND TECHNOLOGY (Electrical and Electronic Engineering)
ENGINEERING AND TECHNOLOGY (General Engineering and Mineral & Mining Engineering)
ENGINEERING AND TECHNOLOGY (Chemical Engineering)
ENGINEERING AND TECHNOLOGY (Mechanical, Aeronautical and Manufacturing Engineering)

Not Cross-cutting
Systems Analysis related to energy R&D (Other Systems Analysis)
Sociological economical and environmental impact of energy (Environmental dimensions)
Sociological economical and environmental impact of energy (Other sociological economical and environmental impact of energy)

Project Contact
ITM Power (Trading) Limited

Collaborative Research & Development

Innovate UK

01 January 2015

31 December 2017

36 months

£1,086,848

Yorkshire & Humberside

Competition Call: 1401_CRD_SUST_LES - Localised energy systems. Activity Localised energy systems- a cross-sector approach

Project Contact, ITM Power (Trading) Limited

Project Contact, Cardiff City Council

The project will integrate local energy, the built environment and transport systems by demonstrating a system that will help balance local energy demand and supply at the district level. It brings together two disparate energy sources and an energy carrier on the supply side, which will be designed to respond to local demand for electrical energy, gas and transport fuels in an integrated way. In practice this means an integration of solar PV and landfill gas with the production of hydrogen by rapid response electrolysis. This will demonstrate the use of hydrogen produced from an intermittent renewable energy source as a supply/load optimising intermediary fuel with the potential for use as a transport fuel and as a renewable low-carbon contribution to local gas supplies. The project will be the first joint deployment of rapid response electrolysis with solar PV and landfill gas in the UK, and the first to combine these technologies with the equipment necessary to create and store hydrogen for conversion to electricity and for other uses including zero emission fuel and for injection to demonstrate Power-to-Gas energy storage.The project will integrate local energy, the built environment and transport systems by demonstrating a system that will help balance local energy demand and supply at the district level. It brings together two disparate energy sources and an energy carrier on the supply side, which will be designed to respond to local demand for electrical energy, gas and transport fuels in an integrated way. In practice this means an integration of solar PV and landfill gas with the production of hydrogen by rapid response electrolysis. This will demonstrate the use of hydrogen produced from an intermittent renewable energy source as a supply/load optimising intermediary fuel with the potential for use as a transport fuel and as a renewable low-carbon contribution to local gas supplies. The project will be the first joint deployment of rapid response electrolysis with solar PV and landfill gas in the UK, and the first to combine these technologies with the equipment necessary to create and store hydrogen for conversion to electricity and for other uses including zero emission fuel and for injection to demonstrate Power-to-Gas energy storage.

20/08/15