About H100 Fife
A range of green technologies will go into H100 Fife’s end-to-end green hydrogen network. Here’s how the project will use tried-and-tested tech to show the world it’s possible to turn wind into safe, warm homes.
How it works
Clean power
Fife’s rich wind resource provides ORE Catapult’s 7MW offshore wind turbine with an abundant source of clean electricity. Producing green hydrogen at scale will require huge amounts of renewable electricity, and the UK’s growing offshore wind sector could provide the answer.
Green hydrogen
Electricity generated by the turbine is used to produce green hydrogen at a dedicated electrolysis plant. This facility separates water into its elements: hydrogen and oxygen gas.
Storage facility
Hydrogen is stored on-site in six purpose-built tanks. We’ll store more than enough to heat up the homes connected to our network, ensuring supply won’t be disrupted during even the coldest weather conditions.
New network
Hydrogen is transported through a newly built gas network to opted-in homes.
Clean, warm homes
State-of-the-art hydrogen appliances, fitted and maintained free for participants, provide zero-carbon heating and cooking for the project duration.
8.4km
Green hydrogen gas, created using renewable electricity from a local 7MW offshore wind turbine, will flow through the new 8.4km network when it goes live.
Customers living in the Denbeath or Buckaven areas in Levenmouth who use gas and live in terraced, semi-detached, detached houses and ground or first floor flats can choose to take part.
100%
We’ll connect participating homes to our green hydrogen gas produced from renewable energy.
Hydrogen gas produced by electrolysis is green hydrogen. If renewable electricity is used to produce the green hydrogen, then there are zero carbon emissions involved in its production or use in homes. When burned hydrogen gas releases water vapour and NOx but unlike natural gas it does not release carbon or carbon monoxide. Plus it will have the same odour as natural gas to make sure it smells familiar and is easily detected.
£1000
We’re offering £1000 to participants as a thank you for being part of our project.
Participants won't pay any more for their hydrogen gas supply than they would with natural gas and will benefit from new free hydrogen gas appliances, with free servicing and maintenance throughout the project.
Why Levenmouth?
To find the best place for a world-first green energy project, we looked at options across the UK and chose Levenmouth.
Levenmouth is a community with an existing natural gas network and customers already using gas to heat their homes. Nearby is ORE Catapult’s offshore wind turbine, giving the project a direct source of clean energy and Energy Park Fife, which gives us access to the set-up, people and skills to make the project a success.
The town has a rich history in energy, once the home to one of Scotland’s largest collieries and a major player in coal export. Decades later, we’re retaining the energy heritage of this area, and developing the site for our H100 Fife project.
And with schools and a college in the community, there’s lots of opportunity to help young people to develop the skills they need to succeed in the future.
The project aims to develop the area into an energy hub for years to come, ensuring Levenmouth plays a major role in fighting climate change.