Queen Margrethe to open hydrogen supply for Lolland houses

On 15 September, Queen Margrethe will open the hydrogen supply from a central electrolysis plant to five test houses on the island of Lolland




On 15 September, the village of Vestenskov on Lolland, the fourth largest island in Denmark, will take a step closer to becoming Denmark's first hydrogen community, when Queen Margrethe opens the hydrogen supply from a central electrolysis plant to five test houses, writes financial daily newspaper Børsen.

Each house has a hydrogen-powered fuel cell module installed, which will supply heat and electricity. The project is part of Lolland's aim to become a European role model for full-scale hydrogen technology implementation.

In May 2007, Lolland opened Denmark's first full-scale hydrogen-energy plant and testing facility, which converts surplus wind energy into hydrogen via electrolysis* of water. This has been used to test fuel cells and a range of equipment in what is called phase I of Hydrogen Community Lolland. Phase II will begin on 15 September when the five houses start using hydrogen fuelled micro-power and heating units. Based on the acquired knowledge from this phase, the project will enter phase III in 2-4 years when 35-50 houses will have hydrogen fuelled micro-power and heating units installed.

http://www.denmark.dk/en/servicemen...retheToOpenHydrogenSupplyForLollandHouses.htm

 

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Lolland is in the unusual position of having more cheap electricity from wind farms than they know what to do with. Their wind generating capacity is about a GW, which is crazy high considering their population is only about 66k people.

 

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They will need it to genrerate enough electricity to do electrolysis to convert the water into hydrogen.

 

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It's the same in Iceland - there they actually have chemical industries based around things that require hydrogen, like ammonia synthesis. The hydrogen is basically free, since they have vast amounts of free geothermal and hydroelectricity. In most places getting hydrogen from electrolysis is considered too expensive, but in places like Iceland and Lolland it's actually the cheapest way to go.