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Final Workshop
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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

Introduction to Hyseas III

Martin Smith – Uni St Andrews

09:45

Hydrogen Territories Platform – Sharing Lessons Learnt

Nigel Holmes - SHFCA

10:00

Market Potential

Juan Camillo Gomez - DLR

10:15

Cost Implications and Policy Development

Martin Smith – Uni St Andrews

11:00

Marine Fuel Cells and Projects

Kristina Juelsgaard - Ballard

11:40

Orkney Marine Hydrogen Experience

David Hibbert – Orkney

13:20

Hydrogen Fuel Cell-Battery Power String Test Outcomes

Hans Westad/Lars-Petter Nygaard – Kongsberg

14:20

Risk Based Vessel Design

Declan MacDonald – CMAL

15:10

Fuelling Infrastructure

Klara Vanderkerkhove – McPhy

15:30

Lifecycle Analysis

Juan Camillo Gomez - DLR

15:50

Training

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
The final step to Zero emissions marine transport powered entirely from renewables