New Hydrogen Fuel Cell Building Opened in Scotland

Alex Salmond, who is the first minister, has just recently opened a state-of-the-art building powered by hydrogen fuel cell technology. This building, based in Methil, Fife will be used as kind of a research and demonstration facility for renewable energy technology.

This building will include a 75okW wind turbine, 30kw electrolyser, 10kW hydrogen fuel cell and a geothermal source heat pump. Thus, it is easy to see that this new building is going to be state-of-the-art in many regards.

When this building is operating, it will capture surplus energy from the wind turbine and store it as hydrogen when there is no wind. It will use the hydrogen fuel cell to generate electricity from stored energy when it is required to do so.

Mr Salmond, said that The Hydrogen Office is playing a leading role in the development of a range of carbon cutting technologies, including the provision of clean energy for electricity, heat and transport to storing renewable power from other sources such as wind. According to the Scottish government, the £4.7 million facility will be able to generate electricity and hydrogen for the building, as well as supply enough electricity to meet the annual energy demand of the Methil Docks Business Park.

Overall, it is easy to see why this new building means so much to Scotland. However, this is not just a big step forward for Scotland, but clean energy as a whole. This building will be able to perform tons of great research that can help Scotland lead the way in clean technology. Hopefully other countries will follow suite and come up with their own “Hydrogen Office” as well.