Can Hydrogen play a role in the Energy Transition despite the many obstacles?
Will it be too expensive and require too much renewable electricity?
What about the lack of infrastructure for transport and storage?
Can Hydrogen play a role in the Energy Transition despite the many obstacles?
Will it be too expensive and require too much renewable electricity?
What about the lack of infrastructure for transport and storage?
These are relevant questions we need to ask, but what if we created a circular ecosystem where we could minimize or remove these obstacles. Where there is surplus electricity, flexible hydrogen storage facilities and end users within a geographically small area or hub.
Then we could develop new industries and industrial symbiosis, create jobs, make existing industries more sustainable and reduce emissions.
This is our mission, in Hardanger Hydrogen Hub.
The Solution
We are prioritizing our activities and projects within 4 areas:
1.
Energy optimization
- production side
The energy we produce is often less than what the installed capacity could allow us to. The reason could be that market demand and price is too low, that the power grid has no capacity to receive the production or that the energy source is temporary unavailable. Hydrogen can in such cases be used to capture such surplus energy to be used for industrial purposes. An important enabler for this is Long Duration Energy Storage systems for Hydrogen.
2.
Energy optimization
- consumption side
Efficient use of Hydrogen often requires proximity between the production and consumption. Finding or developing the industrial processes that are a good fit is key. Typical existing industrial processes are steel production. New industries could be industrial scale production of protein as feedstock for fish farming replacing the not sustainable soy protein production.
3.
Energy utilization
- consumption side
Hydrogen can also be used to decarbonize the transport sector. Industrial long distance transport between the west coast of Norway and the east and Europe is along E134 – the Hydrogen road. Building a Hydrogen filling network linked to Hydrogen production is a promising opportunity. Using Hydrogen for heavy construction machinery another one.
Hydrogen or Ammonia is also the future zero emission fuel for the shipping industry.
Photo: Dag Endre Opedal
4.
National test and demonstration center
None of this will happen if we are not able to demonstrate and visualize its real value, creating a deeper understanding of the purpose and showcase the end results it will create. Our ambition is to create our own arena for this as well as participate in others.
These activities and projects have in common that they represent systems technologies where Norwegian suppliers are in a very good position to develop systems solution that can create new industry in Norway and that has export potential.
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Our supporters
We cannot do this all by ourselves. Several supporters and partners are involved and we are very grateful for this. They include financial supporters, clusters, innovators, technology leaders and global business leaders.
Would you like to join in?
In Hardanger Hydrogen Hub, our purpose is to be an incubator and facilitator of the development and industrialization of sustainable hydrogen energy systems.
We want to pave the way for a circular economy and facilitate piloting and scaling of industrial systems where the utilization of Hydrogen and surplus heat are important input factors.
Visualizing the value of Hydrogen in industrial and energy systems is key in creating an understanding of the role Hydrogen will play in the Energy Transition.
Do you find this interesting and would like to know more or maybe partner with us on some of our projects, please contact us.
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