Public Funding for Erm Limited

The Milford Haven: Hydrogen Kingdom (MH:HK) is a collaboration between Celtic Sea Power (CSP), ERM Dolphyn (ERM), Wales and West Utilities (WWU) and Offshore Renewable Energy Catapult (OREC) who will answer the question: 'At what point does offshore wind producing green hydrogen become more cost effective than electrically connected projects?' Our ambition is to accelerate the roll out of the full floating wind and marine energy ambition delivering industrial decarbonisation and net zero whilst supporting the Celtic Freeport to create of over 16000 new green jobs and generate £5.5Bn of new investment for the region, which hydrogen will be key to unlocking. It builds on and utilises the highly successful collaborations that have been involved in delivering: Milford Haven: Energy Kingdom (MH:EK): Project that focused on developing diverse, local markets to support the transition to hydrogen and renewables for the major energy infrastructure cluster along the Milford Haven Waterway in Wales. Pembroke Dock Marine (PDM) : Pembrokeshire's Swansea Bay City Deal (SBCD) Investment to deliver the facilities, services and spaces needed to establish a world-class centre for marine energy and engineering. South Wales Industrial Cluster's (SWIC) Cluster Plan and Deployment projects supporting the development of a world leading, truly sustainable industrial cluster, befitting the societal needs of 2030\. Together, partners will deliver a credible, evidence-backed business plan to quantify potential benefits, costs, uncertainties and economic advantages to support timely decision making on green hydrogen's role across the UK using the Southwest Wales's established ecosystem to raise profile, build advocacy and add value. MH:HK will support the development of ERM's TRL level 7 Dolphyn Hydrogen technology through to TRL level 9\. Building on prototype testing being delivered in 2024, the following development of a 10-15MW hydrogen production from floating wind unit, then a 135MW project delivering an estimated 12,000Te of hydrogen per year will be progressed within CSP's Pembrokeshire Demonstration Zone targeting connection to local industrial consumers and WWU's HyLine Cymru project, the planned 100% hydrogen pipeline connecting Pembrokeshire to industry in Neath Port Talbot. There is clear regional appetite to embrace hydrogen. The Celtic Freeport has a target of £3.5bn inward investment from the hydrogen industry with green hydrogen contributing 10% towards Milford Haven Waterway Future Energy Cluster's 20% of UK 2030 production. MH:HK will cement Southwest Wales as a Hydrogen SuperPlace as set out in UK government's Ten Point Plan for a Green Industrial Revolution.

The current energy crisis has increased the urgency to decarbonise heat and transport in order to reduce fuel bills, reach emission targets, and increase energy independence. However, as buildings try to decarbonise and integrate more heat pumps and electric vehicles (EVs), many are finding it difficult to secure the additional electricity grid connection capacity required in a timely and low-cost manner. Furthermore many of them are looking into options to limit their exposure to every increasing fuel prices including installing solar PV with battery storage. While smart charging can reduce some of the costs of integrating electric vehicles, it cannot provide flexibility to other energy uses in the building, in particular heat pumps. Subsequently it cannot increase consumption of onsite PV generation across these uses. Vehicle-to-Building (V2B) chargers deployed in public or commercial buildings could be a key low cost flexibility solution for buildings, offering significant synergies between decarbonisation of transport and buildings. EVs could discharge their batteries during times of peak demand to provide power to various end uses in the building. This would reduce the reduce buildings' requirements for connection upgrades as well as fuel bills. V2B could have significant advantages compared to other distributed flexibility such as less space requirements and lower cost. In addition, V2B could avoid some of the key issues Vehicle-To-Grid (V2G) chargers are facing such as complexity of aggregation and grid services markets. However, the commercial model for V2B has not been developed yet. The Vehicle-to-Building User Interface Learning Device (V2BUILD) project aims to support the commercialisation of Vehicle-to-building (V2B) by: 1\. Identifying a set of archetypes of buildings, vehicle fleets and locations, for which V2B could be commercially viable. 2\. Providing decision makers (property managers, DNOs, charge point operators etc.) with a user-friendly software tool that will allow them to quantify the benefits V2B solutions depending on location and building and vehicle fleet characteristics and compare them with other flexibility technology The consortium includes Element Energy, Wallbox, UKPN, and Nissan to covering the full V2B value chain and bringing together pioneers in bi-directional chargers and EVs and active network operation. The consortium's expertise on V2B charger and vehicle requirements, the value of flexibility in different locations of the grid, and business models capturing this value will enable it to provide deep insight on the most attractive use cases for V2B and help to accelerate the roll out of this technology.