Vattenfall Gets Funding for World’s First Hydrogen

The UK Government has awarded Vattenfall £9.3 million pounds ($11.5 million) in innovation funding to develop the world’s first hydrogen-producing offshore wind turbine, with the electrolyzer sited directly onto an existing operational turbine.The pilot project at Vattenfall’s Offshore Wind Farm in Aberdeen Bay will have an output of 8 MW. It will be able to produce enough hydrogen every day to power a hydrogen bus to travel 24,000 kilometers, Vattenfall said. The hydrogen will be piped to shore at Aberdeen Harbor.”We are very happy with the Government funding. Placing hydrogen electrolyzers on offshore wind turbines is likely to be the quickest and cheapest way of providing fossil-free hydrogen at scale, said Danielle Lane, UK Country Manager for Vattenfall.The project – called ‘Hydrogen Turbine 1 (HT1)’ – aims to be the first project in the world to test the…

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