Small islands north of Scotland had too much energy from renewable sources that the grid couldn't handle it. So they would have to shutdown wind farm equipment to lower power generation.
Now they decided instead to lead the Hydrogen Revolution and use the extra energy from wind and tidal farms to create hydrgen using electrolysis. They have already converted cars to hydrogen and are working on using it to provide heat to a school. They are also working on a hydrogen transportation ship for a clean fuel burning ship.
Pretty cool stuff
Now they decided instead to lead the Hydrogen Revolution and use the extra energy from wind and tidal farms to create hydrgen using electrolysis. They have already converted cars to hydrogen and are working on using it to provide heat to a school. They are also working on a hydrogen transportation ship for a clean fuel burning ship.
Pretty cool stuff
This small island chain is leading the way on hydrogen power
By Hanna Ziady, CNN Business Too much clean energy. It's an unusual problem to have, and one that's spurred a group of islands off the northern coast of Scotland to become an unlikely...
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Wind turbines needed to be switched off on a daily basis, as power cables reached capacity, leaving clean energy unused.
Rather than waste the excess electricity, the islands decided to harness it. It was here that in 2017 the European Marine Energy Centre (EMEC), in a world first, used tidal energy to split water and make hydrogen — a process known as electrolysis.
That was just the beginning. The success of that project spurred collaboration between EMEC, Community Energy Scotland and others to do the same with excess wind energy. Surf 'n' Turf, a project funded by the Scottish government, combined excess electricity from tidal and wind turbines to create hydrogen, another world first.
Producing hydrogen power remains expensive, but Orkney's success in creating hydrogen using clean energy demonstrates that it can be done at scale. The islands are already using hydrogen to power vehicles, and it will soon be used to heat a local primary school.
Now, Orkney is hoping to use hydrogen fuel cells to power a seagoing vessel able to transport both goods and passengers.