TSB Grant Award - Gas Injection Feasibility Study
TM Power (AIM: ITM), the energy storage and clean fuel company, has been awarded a grant under the Technology Strategy Board's Smart Power Distribution and Demand competition. The project is due to commence in July 2012 and has a duration of 12 months.
The UK quotient of renewable energy generation is due to increase by a factor of five over the next decade and this will dramatically increase the unpredictability of supply. Coupled with existing curtailment traffic and distribution network bottlenecks, this presents a significant technical and financial challenge. The ITM Power lead project aims to investigate the technical, financial and operational feasibility of injecting hydrogen gas, generated from electrolysis fed from excess renewables, into the UK gas networks.
ITM Power is collaborating in a partnership which includes the Scottish Hydrogen Fuel Cell Association ("SHFCA"), and Gastec at CRE ("Gastec") on the £164k feasibility study. The project includes preliminary logistical research, system research, creation of a generation model and the simulation of hydrogen production at a single wind farm.