Tees Valley hydrogen transport hub: successful bidders
Published 21 March 2024
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Government has allocated over £XX million to support hydrogen-powered transport in the North East of England.
The following projects have been awarded funding.
Hydrogen transport hub demonstration Phase 2
ZEHyDA-2 – Zero Emission Hydrogendemonstration in Airport Applications
Led by Ulemco, this project will demonstrate a range of hydrogen-fuelled airside vehicles at both Teesside International Airport and Royal Air Force (RAF) Leeming. Motive fuels will redeploy an electrolyser and publicly accessible hydrogen refuelling station while Newcastle University will capture and analyse the data.
Participants include:
- ULEMCo Limited (Ltd)
- Newcastle University
- Teesside International Airport Ltd
- Ministry of Defence (MoD)
- Motive Fuels Ltd
Total eligible project cost: £3.4 million
Fund allocation: £2.6 million
Tees Valley Hydrogen Vehicle Ecosystem
An Exolum-led project to deploy a publicly accessible green hydrogen refuelling station at riverside terminal near Middlesborough and serves around 25 heavy goods vehicles (HGVs) that are supplied by Electra Commercial Vehicles and Quantron AG (working with Novuna Vehicle Solutions). Teesside University will use its hydrogen and fuel cell expertise to support the project.
Participants include:
- Exolum Ventures Ltd
- Teesside University
- Electra Commercial Vehicles Ltd
- Novuna Vehicle Solutions
Total eligible project cost: £11.6 million
Fund allocation: £7 million
Teesside International Airport Refuelling Hub
Element 2 will lead this project to build a publicly accessible hydrogen refuelling station at Teesside International Airport, which will be used to demonstrate their goods vehicles to include supermarket deliveries for:
- airport operations vehicles
- Innervated Vehicle Engineering
Participants include:
- Element 2 Ltd
- Teesside International Airport Ltd
- Innervated Vehicle Engineering Ltd
Total eligible project cost: £4.2 million
Fund allocation: £2.8 million
Hydrogen transport hub demonstration Phase 1
Hydrogen MCV Demonstrator
Hydrogen Vehicle Systems (HVS), a pre-revenue OEM of hydrogen-powered commercial vehicles, have teamed up with a leading supermarket who are actively seeking practical medium-heavy duty solutions to help decarbonise its vehicle fleet.
To achieve this, HVS will finalise the build and pre-deployment preparation of the HVS MCV, a medium-duty, 5-tonne N2 Category commercial vehicle, in readiness for operational demonstration with the end-user bewteen their stores and distribution centre within the Tees Valley.
Participants include:
- Hydrogen Vehicle Systems (Lead)
- Green Forty Development Ltd
Total eligible project cost: £278,000
Fund allocation: £125,000
Trials, analysis and deployment planning for hydrogen fleets
This project will demonstrate hydrogen zero-emission light commercial vehicles operating in local authority fleets. The vans will be operated in council fleets, instrumented with remote logging devices and compared against current vehicles and pure battery electric vehicles already in fleets.
CENEX will develop a fleet analysis tool specifically including the capabilities of hydrogen FCEVs that will help fleet customers identify appropriate use cases for hydrogen vehicles.
Participants include:
- Arcola (Lead)
- CENEX
Total eligible project cost: £229,000
Fund allocation: £197,000
HYRBUS – Hybrid fuel cell powertrain retrofit for buses
This Ricardo and Stagecoach project, HYRBUS (HYdrogen fuel-cell Retrofit kit for BUS), is developing a bus demonstrator with a hydrogen fuel-cell powertrain solution that can be retrofitted to existing Diesel buses.
The demonstrator will be driven in the Tees Valley area on test grounds and public roads from mid-February 2022 to the end March 2022. Demonstration trails will continue from 1 April to mid-May 2022 in Tees Valley with driving on public roads. The bus will use regularly the hydrogen refuelling station in Tees Valley area.
Participants include:
- Ricardo UK (Lead)
- Cleveland Transit Ltd
Total eligible project cost: £893,000
Fund allocation: £447,000
Zero Emission Hydrogen Demonstration in Airport applications (ZEHyDA) at RAF Leeming and Teesside International Airport
This project is a collaboration between ULEMCo Ltd (lead), RAF Leeming (RAFL), Teesside International Airport (TIAL) and Newcastle University (NU). It will explore the feasibility of the use of hydrogen to decarbonise a range of operations within air transport particularly the demonstration of the use of zero-emission hydrogen engines in specialist utility vehicles used within ground support operations for the airports.
Participants:
- ULEMCo Ltd (lead)
- Teeside Airport
- Newcastle University
- MoD
Total eligible project cost: £510,000
Fund allocation: £389,000
The Road to Hydrogen: a hydrogen fuel cell HGV demonstration project
The ‘Road to Hydrogen’ is a demonstration project undertaken in the Tees Valley to trial the first 19t gross vehicle weight (GVW) rigid truck powered by hydrogen fuel cells in the UK. Lessons learnt in this project will generate the insights required to improve the confidence of regional stakeholders, contribute to the long-term success of the Teesside Hydrogen Hub and will support the development of a local hydrogen supply chain.
Participants include:
- Element Energy (Lead)
- Electra
- Durham University
- TRL
Total eligible project cost: £412,000
Fund allocation: £338,000
Teesside Hydrogen Vehicle Ecosystem
The Teesside Hydrogen Vehicle Ecosystem plans to test the feasibility of a complementary multimodal approach, introducing a range of hydrogen heavy- and light-duty vehicles across the Tees Valley region, centred around the Tees Valley Airport.
Toyota GB, the project lead, will demonstrate several use cases for their pioneering fuel cell technology including Police, Health Service, Taxis and materials handling.
Participants include:
- Toyota (Lead)
- Bamford Bus Co.
- Element Energy
- TRL
- Caetano
Total eligible project cost: £720,000
Fund allocation: £380,000
Marine Small-ship Zero-carbon H2 Demonstrator with Innovative Port-manoeuvring
Duodrive, newly based within Tees Valley, will create a workboat ‘demonstrator’ by retrofitting high-efficiency electric drivetrains powered by Hydrogen fuelled power generators and high-pressure fuel storage. Octopus Hydrogen will deploy a hydrogen refuelling station.
Participants include:
- DuoDrive (lead)
- TRL
- Durham University
- Queen Marys London