Floating Wind and Hydrogen LHYfe | DolpHYn

Floating Wind and Hydrogen | LHYfe | DolpHYn

Last week I enjoyed teaching a detailed floating wind and hydrogen course for a global cohort keen to learn about too the rapid progress being made in the sector. Feedback has been favourable, and I look forwards to running it again later this year and presenting a shortened version at the World Hydrogen Congress in Rotterdam.

 

 

Being so intricately involved with the evolving sector, a couple of announcements, the backdrop I already shared with the community are starting to gather pace include a couple of front runners from the field of integrated offshore floating wind and hydrogen production. French firm Lhyfe - which has opened a Newcastle office has linked up with Centrica that will explore combining the two firm’s expertise on a pilot green hydrogen production site in the North Sea.

The project aims to combine Lhyfe’s expertise on green hydrogen production and Centrica’s experience of gas storage and infrastructure to ensure that the hydrogen produced can be safely stored and utilised in the UK.

 

The UK sponsored variant is dolphyn with high hopes for both the ScotWind and Celtic Sea leasing UK rounds.

The UK intends to maintain her place as a world leader in the floating offshore wind field. A second entrant, which has been gathering pace and is moving very, very quickly is lhyfe which has made remarkable progress since an onshore debut in France and pushing hard for the sectoral opportunity.

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Lhyfe's spokesman say: “We are pleased to announce this agreement with Centrica, which represents an exciting opportunity to drive forward the clean energy transition through large-scale offshore green hydrogen production.

“Offshore electrolysis coupled with hydrogen storage will maximise the huge potential of offshore wind around the UK. The UK can become a global leader in the production of renewable green hydrogen, moving away from our reliance on fossil fuels and improving our homegrown energy security, while delivering net zero and boosting local economies.”

Martin Scargill, managing director of Centrica Storage, said: “We are delighted to be working with our partners Lhyfe on another exciting and world-leading hydrogen project. Hydrogen is going to play a key role in decarbonising the UK’s power supply by 2035 and our long-term ambition is for Rough, our gas storage site, to be the world’s largest hydrogen store, offering up to 16TWh of storage capacity.

“This pilot will show how green hydrogen can be produced, moved and stored in the UK market; all while supporting the UK on its net zero journey.”

The global prize is vast with perhaps up to 80% of the world's seabed being released by the floating offshore as opposed to fixed variant and the ability if it works to produce hydrogen offshore reducing the need for port infrastructure and offering a direct route to market.

 

It should be noted that LHYfe is operational in the Atlantic Ocean. So we're moving rapidly from the demonstrator to the to the proof of concept and then perhaps the rapid expansion of the sector for floating wind and hydrogen production

 

 

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