Firm seeks world first with hydrogen gas for Levenmouth homes

The field’s first fully renewable hydrogen community for properties may well perchance be built in Scotland if permission is given by the energy regulator.

SGN says it has asked Ofgem if it might produce the H100 Fife facility to again 300 properties at Levenmouth with the choice to expand extra.

The hydrogen would replace pure gasoline as a green alternative for heating and cooking.

The firm hopes to have it operational within about three years.

Offshore wind may well perchance be ancient to generate the electricity required to compose the hydrogen from water thru a path of known as electrolysis.

New pipes will be laid alongside 1,000 properties, which manner dwelling householders would have the choice of receiving their novel gasoline provide or the hydrogen alternative.

SGN says it does no longer think the Covid-19 pandemic will extend work, with construction anticipated to originate in early 2021.

The first properties may well perchance be heated from hydrogen “within two to a pair of years.”

Angus McIntosh, director of energy futures at SGN, mentioned: “Hydrogen is an exhilarating energy vector that at scale may well present an identical levels of stable, stable, legitimate and sensible energy to what we skills now, with minimal disruption for patrons.

“The mission will present key nationwide evidence for hydrogen’s position in the UK’s energy transition and main perception into the patron price proposition of hydrogen for heat.”

Policy makers were looking to hunt out an alternative approach to heat our properties because individual gasoline boilers are inefficient and emit important greenhouse gases.

Decarbonising heat is regarded as main if fetch-zero targets are to be achieved by 2045 in Scotland and 2050 for the UK.

Work is ongoing to set up the viability of changing pure gasoline with hydrogen but utilizing the novel pipes.