Hydrogen Utilisation & Green Energy

Programme 2014 - 2020 INTERREG VB Northern Periphery and Arctic

Date of latest update: 2023-11-16

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HUGE aims to address the necessity for assessing the hydrogen renewable energy chain from production through storage, transport and on to the end-user in the Northern Periphery and Arctic (NPA) region. Many communities in the NPA are challenged by low economic diversity, resulting from their peripheral locations, dispersed demography and lack of critical mass. Simultaneously those remote, peripheral locations, have some of the best renewable energy resources in the world. On many occasions, if renewables are implemented, the generated electricity/heat is more than that required and utilised by the local population. At the same time the electric grid infrastructure in many of the remote locations is underdeveloped, resulting in the curtailment of green electricity production, and inefficient resource use as clean energy is left unexploited. Similar situations are encountered by communities/households living off-grid where excess energy is not harnessed, where otherwise it could be put into use if mechanisms existed. HUGE aims to overcome these barriers and challenges by building up capacity in communities to exploit the abundance of natural resources to their full potential. HUGE will achieve this by identifying viable technical processes for small scale operation, assessing feasible technical processes, and creating an operational, hydrogen utilisation business (HUB) model for communities to implement. The main advantage of hydrogen is that it is a flexible energy carrier, it can be produced from any regionally prevalent energy source and effectively transformed into any form of energy for diverse end-use applications - electricity, heat and transport. HUGE’s immediate targeted opportunity is diversifying the economy of remote, peripheral communities by developing the HUB model for local hydrogen supply chain development, while at the same time providing communities with energy security.

Website: http://www.interreg-npa.eu/

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Renewable energy

Specific Objective: Increased use of energy efficiency and renewable energy solutions in housing and public infrastructures in remote, sparsely populated areas

Thematic Objective: (04) supporting the shift towards a low-carbon economy in all sectors by:

Investment Priority: (04c) supporting energy efficiency, smart energy management and renewable energy use in public infrastructure, including in public buildings, and in the housing sector

Partners (5)

Lead Partner: North Highland College UHI

Department: Environmental Research Institute (ERI)

Address: Ormlie Rd, Thurso, KW14 7EE KW14 8AN, United Kingdom

Legal status: public

Website: https://www.northhighland.uhi.ac.uk/

Total budget: EUR 14 900.52

ERDF budget: EUR 9 685.34

Íslensk Nýorka ehf

Name: Íslensk Nýorka ehf

Address: Grensasvegi 9, 108 Reykjavik, Iceland

Legal status: private

Total budget: EUR 10 100.37

Action Renewables

Name: Action Renewables

Department: NGO

Address: Boucher Business Studios, Glenmachan Place Block C Unit 1, BT12 6QH Belfast, United Kingdom

Legal status: private

Website: http://www.actionrenewables.co.uk

Total budget: EUR 7 493.05

ERDF budget: EUR 3 746.52

Norges teknisk-naturvetenskapelige Universitet (NTNU)

Name: Norges teknisk-naturvetenskapelige Universitet (NTNU)

Department: Energy and Process Engineering

Address: Kolbjoern Hejes vei 1D, 7491 Trondheim, Norway

Legal status: public

Website: http://www.ntnu.no

Total budget: EUR 5 000.00

National University of Ireland Galway

Name: National University of Ireland Galway

Department: School of Chemistry

Address: University Road, H91 CF50 Galway, Ireland

Legal status: public

Website: http://www.nuigalway.ie

Total budget: EUR 7 499.99

ERDF budget: EUR 4 874.99

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Icelandic New Energy

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Action Renewables

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National University of Ireland Galway

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North Highland College UHI

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Summary

Project name (FR): Hydrogen Utilisation & Green Energy

Project name (EN): Hydrogen Utilisation & Green Energy

Project acronym: HUGE_Preparation

Project start date: 2018-06-01

Project end date: 2018-11-30

Project status: closed

Total budget/expenditure: EUR 44 993.93

Total EU funding (amount): EUR 18 306.86

Total EU funding (co-financing rate): 61.24%

Co-financing sources:

ERDF: Amount, EUR 18 306.86.

Third-country contribution: Iceland: EUR 5 050.18 (ERDF equivalent only); Norway: EUR 2 500.00 (ERDF equivalent only)

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2014 - 2020 INTERREG VB Northern Periphery and Arctic

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2023-11-02

No. of projects in keep.eu / Total no. of projects (% of projects in keep.eu)

152 / 152 (100%)

No. of project partnerships in keep.eu / Total no. of project partnerships (% of project partnerships in keep.eu)

779 / 779 (100%)

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