Milford Haven : Hydrogen Kingdom
Celtic Sea Power has successfully led a collaborative bid with to secure £877k of funding from Innovate UK’s Launchpad: net zero industry, South West Wales program to deliver the £2.1m Milford Haven: Hydrogen Kingdom (MH:HK) project. MH:HK will test and validate the cost benefit to the consumer and savings that could result from the roll out of ultra-low carbon hydrogen-generating floating offshore wind projects in the Celtic Sea. It lays out an end-to-end solution for producing, transporting and delivering hydrogen to industrial customers.
Collaborating with Dolphyn Hydrogen, Wales and West Utilities and Offshore Renewable Energy Catapult, our ambition is to accelerate the roll out of the full floating wind and marine energy ambition to deliver industrial decarbonization and net zero, which hydrogen will be key to unlocking. The project outcomes are seeking to support the Celtic Freeport’s, £3.5 billion hydrogen industry inward investment target and support the business case and decision timing for the Hyline Cymru project transporting hydrogen from Pembrokeshire to the central and easterly regions of South Wales.
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Pembrokeshire Demonstration Zone
Celtic Sea Power are the leaseholder for the Pembrokeshire Demonstration Zone (PDZ): a 90 km2 area off the south coast of Pembrokeshire which is currently designated for wave and tidal test and demonstration activity.
FLOW and green hydrogen are presenting an increasing market pull, which is critical to accommodate if the PDZ is to realize its ambition and value. MH:HK will aim to update the existing scoping for the PDZ to include the potential for green hydrogen pipelines, and to assess the potential for coordinating green hydrogen in proximity to electrical cable corridors.
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Dolphyn Hydrogen
Dolphyn is a world leading patented technology using offshore wind energy to power a desalination plant which purifies seawater, and an electrolyser to split the purified water into hydrogen and oxygen, all located one one floating platform.
Dolphyn Hydrogen is the proposed hydrogen production technology solution for the PDZ hydrogen project. They have received over £12m funding from UK Government to date and are actively seeking opportunities for deployment in the Celtic Sea to produce ultra-low carbon hydrogen before 2030, supporting hydrogen production targets and decarbonization of major industry in South Wales.
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Hyline Cymru
Wales and West Utilities are leading plans for a major hydrogen pipeline in south Wales to accelerate the decarbonization of industry and gas customers in the region. The proposed pipeline will stretch from Pembrokeshire to the Swansea Bay area, connecting low carbon hydrogen production with industrial demand and providing options for other natural gas customers.
The MH:HK project will seek to progress engineering designs for the interface connecting the potential hydrogen production in the Celtic Sea to the Hyline Pipeline between Neath Port Talbot and Pembrokeshire.
MH:HK partners will deliver research in the following areas to create credible, evidence backed outputs that will quantify the potential benefits, costs, uncertainties and economic advantages to support timely decision making on green hydrogen’s role across the UK using South Wales’s established ecosystem.
- Providing credible industrial research-based evidence about the benefit to consumers and the savings that result from green hydrogen generating FLOW projects in the Celtic Sea.
- Collating policy, strategy and aspirations / outcomes from several key stakeholder groups, disseminating MH:HK’s strategic alignment in a clear, coherent way to market players, stakeholder groups and members of the public.
- Engineering design options allowing the Dolphyn phases in the PDZ to progress to Pre-Feed.
- Providing clarity about consenting pathways for the component elements of green hydrogen producing FLOW projects.
- Engineering design associated with the hydrogen pipeline and reception facility to the point of use.
- Develop the engineering designs associated with the longer-term FLOW pipeline into Hyline.
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MH:HK builds on the £4.5 million Innovate UK funded Milford Haven: Energy Kingdom project led by Pembrokeshire County Council, who are also supporting MH:HK through the Swansea Bay City Deal. MH:EK was a two year collaborative project, ending in 2022, between Pembrokeshire County Council, The Offshore Renewable Energy Catapult, Port of Milford Haven, Riversimple, Wales & West Utilities, Arup, and the Energy Systems Catapult.
MH:EK aimed to explore the potential of zero carbon hydrogen alongside renewable electricity to meet future energy needs through investigations into local renewable energy, developing a business case for accelerating to a hydrogen economy, and delivering demonstrations through a consumer trial of hydrogen fuel cell vehicles and a hydrogen-ready hybrid heating system.
