Glensaugh is managed as an upland livestock farm of just over 1000 ha, with sheep, cattle, red deer, improved and extensive pastures, moorland, and woodland (Pic: James Hutton Institute).
PLANS are afoot for a green-hydrogen-powered farming community around the James Hutton Institute's Glensaugh farm.
The institute has been awarded funding from the Scottish Government’s Community and Renewable Energy Scheme to undertake a feasibility study for its 'HydroGlen' project, which would transform the Aberdeenshire research facility into an energy-efficient, carbon-neutral hub powered entirely by hydrogen and capable of supplying energy to the wider local community.
The initiative hopes to provide a demonstration for communities across Scotland of how new hydrogen technologies can make them energy-independent or even fuel producers themselves.