SH2AMROCK - Ireland's Emerald Hydrogen Valley SH2AMROCK will deploy green hydrogen across key hard-to-abate sectors across the island of Ireland – including key infrastructure to enable the production, distribution, and use of green hydrogen. The 5 year-project, with a total investment of approximately €80m, will showcase the capacity of H2 to maximise penetration of RES through sector coupling, while facilitating widespread integration of renewable H2 into Ireland’s energy system. SH2AMROCK will realise this goal through the deployment of the country’s first hydrogen valley and multi-modal H2 transport hub in Galway – accelerating the island of Ireland’s energy transition and decarbonisation across multiple end-user applications.

Project HySaaS will help address the need for lower cost S&D solutions with a feasibility study on deploying a Storage as a Service (SaaS) business model within the developing UK hydrogen market. This study will cover three key areas: Customer Cost -- S&D solutions are capital intensive, particularly for small-to-medium sized hydrogen projects. The SaaS model will evaluate offering rented hydrogen storage on a full-systems basis. This will cover individual cylinders, fixed and transportable storage to minimise the Total Cost of Ownership of S&D within complete hydrogen value chains. Safety -- Monitoring of pressure vessels is currently at a bundle level -- where numerous cylinders have been manifolded together into a single unit. However, the service conditions seen by individual cylinders can vary widely , which is not always understood or recorded. Therefore, HySaaS will demonstrate cylinder-level monitoring of cylinders in operational conditions to track a cylinder's operational profile in a digital passport. This enables risk identification, monitoring, and prevention and benefits the consortium's existing and future customers. Business model innovation -- HySaaS will study the implications of deploying the SaaS model for hydrogen S&D assets.