Scottish Power announced that The Green Hydrogen for Scotland partnership has secured GBP 9.4 million of funding through the Storage at Scale competition run by UK’s Department of Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy. Greg Hands, Minister of State for Business, Energy and Clean Growth, announced the funding today at ScottishPower’s Whitelee windfarm where the 20MW hydrogen production and storage facility will be built. The funded through the BEIS Energy Innovation Portfolio funding of £9.4m will support investment for the first phase of development of the 20MW project which is the first project to be delivered by the Green Hydrogen for Scotland partnership.The partnership, made up of ScottishPower, ITM Power and BOC, is currently going through the planning process for the new facility and aims to have green hydrogen available to the commercial market by 2023.The green hydrogen facility would be powered by the mix of technologies at Whitelee which includes a new solar farm, battery energy storage system and the existing windfarm. The hydrogen will be used to provide a zero-carbon fuel for heavy transport and high temperature industrial processes, helping to decarbonise local transport and improve air quality for communities across Glasgow and wider region.The 20MW project, once complete, would be capable of providing enough zero-emission hydrogen to power up to 550 hydrogen buses to travel from Glasgow to Edinburgh and back again each day.
Scottish Power announced that The Green Hydrogen for Scotland partnership has secured GBP 9.4 million of funding through the Storage at Scale competition run by UK’s Department of Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy. Greg Hands, Minister of State for Business, Energy and Clean Growth, announced the funding today at ScottishPower’s Whitelee windfarm where the 20MW hydrogen production and storage facility will be built. The funded through the BEIS Energy Innovation Portfolio funding of £9.4m will support investment for the first phase of development of the 20MW project which is the first project to be delivered by the Green Hydrogen for Scotland partnership.The partnership, made up of ScottishPower, ITM Power and BOC, is currently going through the planning process for the new facility and aims to have green hydrogen available to the commercial market by 2023.The green hydrogen facility would be powered by the mix of technologies at Whitelee which includes a new solar farm, battery energy storage system and the existing windfarm. The hydrogen will be used to provide a zero-carbon fuel for heavy transport and high temperature industrial processes, helping to decarbonise local transport and improve air quality for communities across Glasgow and wider region.The 20MW project, once complete, would be capable of providing enough zero-emission hydrogen to power up to 550 hydrogen buses to travel from Glasgow to Edinburgh and back again each day.
