HOLD THE DATE-GENCOMM Closing Conference: Wednesday May 31st 2023, Belfast Met, E3 building, 398 Springfield Road, Belfast, BT12 7DU.
GENCOMM will address the energy sustainability challenges of NWE communities through the implementation of smart hydrogen-based energy matrixes. The project validates the maturity of hydrogen technologies by implementing 3 pilot plants that link the 3 main northwest European renewable sources (Solar Power, Wind Power, and Bioenergy) with energy storage and the main forms of energetic demand (Heat, Power and Transportation fuels). Based on the pilot plants; integrated technical and financial simulation models will be developed. Together, both models will form a Decision Support Tool (DST) that provides a roadmap for communities to transition to renewable, hydrogen-based energy matrixes. The final goal of the project is, through the combination of sources and forms of demand, to lead NWE’s road to sustainability while granting hydrogen its position as a commercially viable energy medium for the future.
Project General Objective
GENCOMM aims to technically and financially validate the renewable H2 value chain and adapt it to a DST that leads NWE communities into sustainable, local and autonomous energy matrixes. The DST is directed to community energy stakeholders (utilities, policy-makers, and private firms in the energy sector), as the key agents to implement the proposed matrix. The project will first engage energetically and territorial remote communities to then address the rest of NWE.
Project Specific Objectives
The following chart links the Hydrogen Value Chain and the Project's work packages.
62 62 New Forge Land, Belfast,
Belfast
BT9 5NF
United Kingdom
10 Hydepark Rd, Newtownabbey
Newtownabbey
BT36 4PY
United Kingdom
3 Hagdale Industrial Estate, Baltasound,
Shetland
ZE29TW
United Kingdom
1 University Road
Galway
Ireland
17 Altenkesseler Str.
Saarbrücken
66115
Germany
6 Boulevard Maréchal Juin
Caen
14050
France
685 Avenue de l'Université - BP 08
Saint Etienne du Rouvray
76801
France
52 Station Rd
Maghera
BT465EY
United Kingdom
VUB Vrije Universiteit Brussel Building Z, Pleinlaan
Brussels
1050 Elsene
Belgium
398 Springfield Road
Belfast
BT12 7DU
United Kingdom
Lead partner
| Organisation | Address | Website | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Belfast Metropolitan College |
398 Springfield Road Belfast BT12 7DU United Kingdom |
paulmccormack@belfastmet.ac.uk | www.belfastmet.ac.uk |
| Name | Contact Name | Country | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Viridian Energy Supply Limited | Mark Welsh | mark.welsh@energia.ie | United Kingdom |
| Hy Energy | Ian Williamson | ian.williamson@hy-energy.co.uk | United Kingdom |
| Pure Energy Centre | Elizabeth Johnson | elizabeth.johnson@pureenergycentre.com | United Kingdom |
| National University of Ireland Galway | Rory Monaghan | rory.monaghan@nuigalway.ie | Ireland |
| IZES gGmbH | Bodo Groß | gross@izes.de | Germany |
| ENSICAEN | Federico Azzolina-Jury | federico.azzolina-jury@ensicaen.fr | France |
| INSA Rouen Normandie | Isabelle Polaert | isabelle.polaert@insa-rouen.fr | France |
| TK Renewables | Kieran Mc Laughlin | kierantkr@gmail.com | United Kingdom |
| BURN Joint Research Group, Vrije Universiteit Brussel | Francesco Contino | fcontino@vub.ac.be | Belgium |
Mr David Barnett, General Manager, Engineering, Translink, Mr David Butler Director, SGN Natural Gas will be the keynote speakers at the GenComm closing conference at Belfast Met’s E3 campus on May 31st, 2023. Read More
Paul McCormack, the Programme Manager of the Belfast Met led EU hydrogen project ‘GenComm’ will present a hydrogen paper at the UK’s largest low carbon energy event, ‘All Energy/Dcarbonise 2023’ in Glasgow on May 10-11 with the Scottish First Minister , the Rt Hon Humza Yousaf, MSP and a number of Scottish Government Ministers in attendance. Read More
The exploration of a Cork Hydrogen Valley, the Irish launch of the GenComm EST which helps determine routes for hydrogen buses and a visit by Hydrogen Europe are all happening at the Cork Partner Meeting of the Belfast Met led EU hydrogen project GenComm next week, (March 29-30, 2023) Read More
GenComm Partners including the University of Galway, Hy Energy Consultancy and Dublin City University have authored the 'Economics of Hydrogen and Associated Synthetic Fuels for Northern Ireland' report as part of the Hydrogen evidence base for the NI Energy Strategy. Read More
A leading European organisation has selected Valentia Island in Co Kerry as one of 15 regions that will receive support to explore clean energy solutions that will help Ireland on its path to net zero. Read More
In case you missed our SMART H2 Webinars. Enjoy. Read More
In case you missed our HAZEL webinars, here are the links to them. Enjoy. Read More
The GenComm Enabling Support Tool, (EST) to help bus fleets decarbonise has went live today online for the first time globally. Read More
Two GenComm authors of a new White Paper on ‘Alternative Powertrains and the challenges to decarbonise the Transport Sector’ are calling for more action from governments regarding the introduction of alternative powertrains to fight CO2 emissions. Read More
GenComm has been praised for helping an area of Germany become a hydrogen model region. Speaking ahead of her appearance at the 22nd GenComm Partner Meeting being held this time in Saarland, Germany, on December 15-16 Ms Elena Yorgova Ramanauskas, State Secretary Ministry of Economy, Innovation, Digital and Energy in Saarland welcomed GenComm and its work. Read More
A paper by Dr. Bodo Groß and Pedro Aguilar.
A new report by Julia Machado, MSC, NUIG, Brendan Flynn, PhD, NUIG and Ian Williamson, Hy Energy Consultancy.
The national shaping of Europe's emerging hydrogen strategies.
This new report has been prepared by NUI Galway with partners Hy Energy Consultancy and DCU.
Hydrogen Exploring opportunities in the Northern Ireland Energy Transition
The new paper 'Decarbonising city bus networks in Ireland with renewable hydrogen' authored by Tubagus Aryandi Gunawan, Rory Monaghan, Ian Williamson and Diana Raine from the GenComm partners NUIG and Hy Energy respectively has been published in the Science Direct Journal.
https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0360319920344104
An INSA authored paper produced in March 2019.
https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S0920586118313889
https://bit.ly/3oqW6A9
Proceedings from the HEEP Conference in Hungary in May 2019.
http://neu.projekt-opticharge.de/2019/05/27/heep-conference-proceedings/.
GenComm Programme Manager Paul McCormack made 3 separate presentations at the 2023 All Energy event in Glasgow.
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Day Two of the GenComm Partner Meeting in Cork on March 30th, 2023 was held in UCC. The event was titled: 'Hydrogen-Ireland's Opportunity'.
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Day one of the GenComm Partner Meeting in Cork on March 29th 2023 was held in the IBEC Centre in Cork.
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A number of GenComm Partners presented in the GenComm Policy Session at EU Energy Week on the Commodification of Green Hydrogen.
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The 22nd GenComm Partner Meeting was held in Saarbrücken over two days, December 15 and 16, 2022.
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A number of GenComm Partners presented in the GenComm Policy Session at EU Energy Week on 'The Commodification of Green H2 for Europe'.
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The 21st GenComm Partner Meeting was held in NUIG over two days, September 21 and 22, 2022.
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The 20th GenComm Partner Meeting was held over two days, June 8-9, 2022 at the University of Luxembourg.
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The 19th GenComm Partner Meeting was held over two days in Dublin City University, (DCU) on February 24-25, 2022.
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The 19th GenComm Partner Meeting was staged over two days, (February 24-25, 2022) in Dublin City University.
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Newsletter 14-December 2020
Lead Partner on 2 work packages Management and Communication. Project lead, management and administration, skills development and training. Core link with all other partners in the work packages and also linking in with associate partners in the UK in the public sector, communities and industry.
Energia will lead WP 7 project managing the planning, design, construction, testing and commissioning of large (500kW) hydrogen production facility pilot from wind energy. They will also have input in other work packages. Key expertise from Viridian includes renewable operations, energy trading and wind curtailment and modelling of the wind turbines.
Pure Energy are the Work Package lead for WP I3 the biogas/anaerobic digester to hydrogen pilot. They will deliver the design, supply and delivery of hydrogen system at a biogas plant site in the Western Isle
NUI Galway will manage Work Package 8 "Long term Effects" They are the partner in charge of the delivery of the Decision Support Tool (DST). NUI Galway is a member organisation of MaREI (Marine and Renewable Energy Ireland), a €30M Research Centre backed by industry partners and Science Foundation Ireland (SFI). Dr Monaghan will leverage his role as a Funded Investigator in MaREI to avail of expertise and synergies with other EU and industry-funded projects.
IZES will be the lead in WPI2 encompassing the SOLH2TRANSP route encompassing a pilot Solar-fueled H2 Refueling Station (HRS). The partner’s main role is then to examine and solve 4 different issues: [1] Validate renewable hydrogen production from solar power, [2] Quantify the power demand of a semi-autonomous HRS for hydrogen-fueled vehicles (HFCV), [3] Study the optimal capacities and operation parameters a commercial refueling station should fulfill to supply HFCVs and, [4] create the PPRM.
Expertise in catalysis and catalytic processes development for smart hydrogen processes. Methanation pilot development, pilot scale up in WPI1, and technical process modeling in WPT1. Economical analysis of methanation, financial implications, cost benefits, carbon savings calculations in WPT2 that will serve in WPLT assisting with the delivery of Decision Support Tool.
INSA Rouen Normandie have extensive expertise in implementing a new energy-efficient technical model, hydrogen based, including renewable sources (solar, wind, biogas), hydrogen production, storage and methanation. Expertise in catalytic processes development for methanation: pilot development, pilot scale up, technical and economical process modeling. They will work as a partner in WPI3,the biogas to hydrogen plant developing the methanation process as well as working on WP1, WP2 and WP3.
TK Renewables will bring their mechanical, electrical and technical expertise to the project working with the partners. They will lead WP4 the Implementation Commercial package to develop and validate the market for the pilot plant outputs.
The BURN (comBUstion and Robust optimizatioN) joint research group is part of the Vrije Universiteit Brussel and contribute to this project as a partner involved in several work packages.
NORTHERN IRELAND
www.belfastmet.ac.uk
Paul Mc Cormack, GenComm Programme Manager, +44 (0)2890 265076 PaulMcCormack@belfastmet.ac.uk
Anne Artt, GenComm Operations and Communications Manager, +44 (0)2890 265276 aartt@belfastmet.ac.uk
Peter Smyth, GenComm Finance Manager, +44 (0)2890 265474 PSmyth@belfastmet.ac.uk
NORTHERN IRELAND
www.virdiangroup.co.uk
Mark Welsh, Energia
SCOTLAND
https://pureenergycentre.com
Elizabeth Johnston, Pure Energy Centre, Stornoway
REPUBLIC OF IRELAND
www.nuigalway.ie
Dr Rory Monaghan, NUI Galway
GERMANY
www.izes.de
Bodo, IZES gGmbH
FRANCE
www.eniscaen.fr
Justine Delarogue, Eniscaen
FRANCE
www.insa-rouen.fr
Isabelle Polaert, INSA Rouen Normandie
NORTHERN IRELAND
TK Renewables
Kieran Mc Laughlin, TK Renewables
BELGIUM
burn-research.be
Francesso Contino, University Brussel
ENGLAND
Hy Energy
Ian Williamson, Hy Energy, Berkshire, England
