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Building work has begin on the 225kW wind power plant that will drive the inventive “hydrogen mini-grid” system in South Yorkshire. The system will provide power to the new Environmental Energy Technology Centre (EETC) between Rotherham and Sheffield.Supplementary power will be provided through a 30 kW hydrogen fuel cell system, where excess power from the wind turbine will top up the hydrogen in the fuel cells.
The system is claimed to be the largest wind-to-hydrogen power system in the UK. The storage of excess power as hydrogen has long been a Holy Grail in the green tech sector, and this development should prove an interesting proof of concept.
Work on the foundations for the turbine started on August 4, with Wigan firm Allenbuild preparing the site for delivery of the turbine from Danish manufacturers Vestas next month.
Danish firm Total Wind, which has its UK office in Llandudno, has been contracted to manage the transport, delivery and installation of the Vestas V29 wind turbine in the next few weeks.
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Hydrogen Fuel is very promising, i only hope that we can mass produce soon enough.-~,
hydrogen fueled vehicles are the best but they are still not widely available..-;
hydrogen fuel is not yet very practical and cost effective today*:`
i think that the best fuel that we can use is Hydrogen, this does not product polluting gases at all.-;
hydrogen fuel is definitely the best way to go, it is 100% non-polluting and reneweable:*;
i would love to use hydrogen fuel on my car, this fuel is really nonpolluting but is not yet very available .;~
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