Driving Innovation Technology Strategy Board Hydrogen and Fuel Cells Programmes.
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Driving Innovation Technology Strategy Board Hydrogen and Fuel Cells Programmes
Transcript of Driving Innovation Technology Strategy Board Hydrogen and Fuel Cells Programmes.
Driving Innovation
Technology Strategy BoardHydrogen and Fuel Cells Programmes
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• Support businesses by sharing the risks and shorten timescales in development and deployment of these technologies
• Hydrogen– Support technologies for hydrogen generation, storage, logistics– Design, construction and evaluation of efficient, low cost hydrogen production
systems suitable for on-site vehicle refuelling.– Evaluate its use as a fuel and in energy storage
What are we trying to do?
• Fuel Cells– Widespread deployment with an emphasis on
the supply chain– Range of fuels and target markets– More durable lower cost systems and
manufacturing processes– Integration for automotive and other
applications
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What has been done?
• £10m Collaborative R&D programme March 2009• £7m Demonstrator programme funded by DECC• Investments through Low Carbon Vehicle Innovation Platform• Materials for Energy competitions• £65m of projects (including under LCV IP ), £31m grant
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• A number of fuel cell systems demonstrated– Ceres Power CHP system, integrating fuel cells into
homes– Diverse Energy Power Cube, stationary power for
specific markets– ITM-Power HFuel electrolyser – linking the energy
system and transport– Air Products – refuelling infrastructure– Intelligent Energy Taxi and Scooter – PEM fuel cell
systems integration– Arcola Energy portable system – addressing specific
market needs– ACAL Energy “Flow Cath” – next generation
technology for system cost reduction
What some of are the results so far?
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What is needed now?
• Systems integration with wider context– Turning hydrogen and fuel cells from technologies in development
into solutions for real customer problems. Next competition.
• Partnerships with businesses with applications and markets• Performance and cost reduction
– Manufacturing processes– Next generation technologies– Balance of plant
• Hydrogen– Renewability, storage and logistics challenges
• Supply chain development– Materials, components, capabilities
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How can academia help?
• Be relevant to business– Application led– Partnerships– Supergen Hub
• Hydrogen – renewability and storage– Move to developing usable systems
• Manufacturing– How do we make these things at scale and lower cost?– High Value Manufacturing TIC
• Next generation technologies– How do they fit into developed systems?
• Supply chain development– Component development with a system view
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What’s next?
• Competition for funding £7.5m
“Whole system integration and demonstration”
To integrate hydrogen and fuel cell technologies into wider energy and transport systems and tell the end-to-end story
• Transport and static applications, for example– Renewable hydrogen generation, logistics and use– Vehicles, hydrogen, refuelling and use– CHP building integration and feed in to grid
• Focus for funding is systems integration
• Partnerships with broader industry sectors
• Regional capabilities linked within a national picture
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When?
Competition opens 9 January 2012Briefing day 18 January 2012Expressions of interest deadline 22 February 2012 Second stage opens 19 March 2012Full stage applicants briefing 28 March 2012Deadline for receipt of full applications 2 May 2012
Consortium building day November 17th – see Celia Greaves and the EGS KTN
