Spanish energy company Acciona is to coordinate a new project that aims to design and validate Spain’s first offshore plant for generating, storing and distributing green hydrogen.
The OceanH2 project will study different implementation scenarios, including floating wind and solar, for an offshore hybrid power generation system.
It will evaluate the design alternatives along the whole hydrogen production, storage and distribution chain to identify solutions that have the greatest development potential based on the proposed new materials.
Other partners include Redexis, Ariema, TSI, Wunder Hexicon and BlueNewables, together with 12 Spanish research centres.
OceanH2, which was selected by the Spanish Centre for the Development of Industrial Technology together with 23 other projects, has the backing of the Spanish Ministry of Science and Innovation through the Science and Innovation Missions initiative.
Following the study, Acciona will validate the concept at laboratory scale, as well as integrate into an IoT (Internet of Things) platform, which will facilitate the plant’s operation, maintenance and management using smart monitoring.
The challenges thrown up by its potential construction and scaling-up will be examined using an innovation process that enables the initially proposed design to be optimised.
The project will be simultaneously developed in six Spanish autonomous regions – Madrid, Canary Islands, Andalusia, Cantabria, Navarre and Catalonia – bringing about technological synergies and national scientific capabilities.