The final workshop of the HySeas III project was held on 15 June in the Wolfson Lecture Theatre at the Royal Society of Edinburgh.
Attendees represented a wide range of stakeholders, including UK and Scottish policymakers, oil and gas companies, consultancies, academia, regulators, class societies, ports and shipyards.
We were privileged to have the CEO of the Scottish Hydrogen and Fuel Cell Association, Nigel Holmes to give us an overview of hydrogen projects and Mark Shiner of Orkney College to give us details of their 4 day hydrogen training course.
The agenda of the day is shown below together with links to the presentations.
Time |
Topic |
Speaker |
09:35 |
Martin Smith – Uni St Andrews |
|
09:45 |
Nigel Holmes - SHFCA |
|
10:00 |
Juan Camillo Gomez - DLR |
|
10:15 |
Martin Smith – Uni St Andrews |
|
11:00 |
Kristina Juelsgaard - Ballard |
|
11:40 |
David Hibbert – Orkney |
|
13:20 |
Hans Westad/Lars-Petter Nygaard – Kongsberg |
|
14:20 |
Declan MacDonald – CMAL |
|
15:10 |
Klara Vanderkerkhove – McPhy |
|
15:30 |
Juan Camillo Gomez - DLR |
|
15:50 |
Mark Shiner – Orkney College |
There were many questions from the attendees that provoked extensive discussion during the sessions and coffee breaks, lunch and evening networking.
The key outcomes disseminated on the day were:
- Green hydrogen cannot be cheaper than the underlying electricity and we need massive scaling up of green electricity
- A scalable and modular system architecture has been created and demonstrated to work with multiple banks of fuel cells and batteries, and is in use in hybrid ships already delivered
- A complete and safe design of a fuel cell ferry is ready for the next steps to be taken