SGN’s former gas holder site on Harbour Road lies between Inverness’s rail depot and industrial area and will provide green hydrogen directly to large volume anchor customers, including rail. The hub capacity is expected to scale in the medium term to eight tons of hydrogen per day, which could service 800 HGVs per day and have the capacity to reduce carbon emissions by 30,000 tons per year.
Inverness is to be the first site developed by the partners after they signed a MoU in January this year to explore the establishment of hydrogen supply hubs across Scotland and England, with 21 SGN sites earmarked for development.
Luke Johnson, managing director of H2 Green, a Getech business said, “We’re looking to essentially take a redundant piece of land and bring it back into commercial use as a scalable long term clean energy solution to reduce transport emissions, benefitting the planet and the local economy.
“Ownership of the site will be transferred from SGN to H2 Green and SGN will now prepare the site for development, including removal of the redundant gas holder, planned for Q2 next year. H2 Green will lead the project including detailed engineering design, and they will advance relevant consents, permits and licenses,” Johnson added.
Tim Burleigh, head of external relations at Eversholt Rail, continued, “Eversholt Rail is delighted that this key milestone has been achieved. We expect Inverness to be a key strategic refueling location for hydrogen trains operating on routes in Scotland and this exciting announcement by H2 Green will assist in facilitating their introduction at the earliest opportunity. Our ongoing program of work with H2 Green will identify further refueling locations over the coming months.”
Last month, H2 Green signed a deal with Shoreham Port in Sussex to develop a renewable energy hub that will remove emissions from its fleet of trucks and HGVs and be a catalyst for the wider region’s transport decarbonization.
Watch this video to find out more about the new Inverness green hydrogen hub: