A planning application to deliver the UK’s largest electrolyser has been submitted by ScottishPower. The 20MW electrolyser will be the key component of a green hydrogen facility located close to ScottishPower’s Whitelee windfarm. The planning application also includes proposals for a combined solar, up to 40MW, and battery energy storage scheme, up to 50MW, to help power the electrolyser. The submission marks an important step for Green Hydrogen for Scotland, a partnership between ScottishPower, BOC and ITM Power, to create green hydrogen production facilities with clusters of refuelling stations across Scotland. The partnership’s first project, ‘Green Hydrogen for Glasgow’, is designed to provide carbon-free transport and clean air for communities across Glasgow as well as helping support industrial hydrogen demand in the region. The city, set to host the United Nations 26th Climate Change Conference, COP26, later this year, aims to become the first net-zero cit
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ScottishPower unveils plans for UK’s largest electrolyser
ScottishPower has today (12
th April) unveiled plans for what it says will be the UK’s largest electrolyser to be built on the outskirts of Glasgow, Scotland.
The energy firm has submitted a planning application for a new 20MW electrolyser which would be built close to the UK’s largest onshore windfarm, Whitelee.
The electrolyser is part of a green hydrogen facility that ScottishPower says will be capable of producing eight tonnes of green hydrogen per day – roughly equivalent to fuelling over 550 buses to travel from Glasgow to Edinburgh and back again each day.
ScottishPower has filed a planning application to create a clean energy and hydrogen production hub at its 539MW Whitelee wind farm in Scotland.
The consent paperwork seeks approval for a 20MW electrolyser powered by up to 40MW of solar and 50MW of battery energy storage.
The electrolyser project will be engineered and operated by BOC, using wind and solar power produced by the developer, and incorporate an electrolyser delivered by ITM Power.
Whitelee’s clean gas unit aims to supply hydrogen to the commercial market before 2023.
The project represents a doubling in the planned electrolyser scale capacity and is in response to market demand, said ITM.
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