Hydrogen Utilization & Green Energy (HUGE) project
The HUGE Project, lead by ERI, is a 1.4 million project 3 year project, starting on the 1st of June 2019. The project is funded by the Northern Periphery and Arctic (NPA) Programme, under priority Axis 3 – Energy Efficiency & Renewable Energy.
The HUGE project aims to provide communities in the NPA area energy security and self-sufficiency, especially infrastructure providers, through hydrogen utilization from excess green energy production. This will be achieved through delivering to them the necessary tools to assess the hydrogen renewable energy chain opportunities in the NPA area and beyond. The HUGE project aims to increase readiness to invest in integrated hydrogen solutions suitable for constructing, maintaining and running housing and public infrastructures. The HUGE project will achieve it through raising awareness of hydrogen as a viable energy option for a variety of end uses (housing, transport and industry) and promote the importance of storing green energy as part of grid balancing in remote, small micro grids based on renewable energy.
HUGE will achieve this by assessing the hydrogen renewable energy chain from production through storage to transportation and on to the end-user. Innovation, comprising of pooling of competences and transnational learning will take place in order to create the techno-economic assessment (TEA) tool. It will combine process modelling and engineering design with economic evaluation and will be made available to the public and industry/professionals in all regions. This will result in the advance of innovative economic development solution that can be applied in practice in all the partner regions. Development of transboundary results will be achieved by the hydrogen utilisation business (HUB) model. The HUB model will develop and evaluate the renewable energy chain from production through storage, transport and on to the end user. Furthermore, it will enable better market access and growth for renewable energy production systems with focus on effective energy storage and innovative solutions. The outcome will be a new service with transnational character and application. Knowledge transfer will be attained though the hydrogen training and knowledge transfer (HTT) platform. The HTT will promote knowledge sharing and information exchange between actors in the hydrogen and renewable energy production sectors. HTT will use state-of-the-art online learning tools to ensure that training and knowledge transfer is easily accessible and can be translated to all partner’s regions. HUGE goes beyond existing practice in the hydrogen sector and the programme area because the HUB, TEA and HTT
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