A sample of ITM Power's case studies covering Power-to-Gas, Energy Storage, Clean Fuel, Renewable Hydrogen, Renewable Chemistry, Urea production

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2. Shaping a
renewable
hydrogen
future
In a world in which fossil fuel energy
is becoming ever more scarce and
expensive and countries are struggling to
meet their carbon reduction obligations,
hydrogen solutions have finally reached
the top of energy agendas.
ITM Power manufactures integrated
hydrogen energy solutions that are
rapid response and high pressure that
meet the requirements for grid
balancing and energy storage services,
and for the production of clean fuel
for transport, renewable heat and
chemicals. The international demand
for these solutions is increasing.
• Energy storage provision has started
to become a mandatory requirement
in areas of the world such as
California; it is recognised as
an essential prerequisite for
renewable energy deployment
• Grid balancing and rapid response
demand-side services are crucial for
the integration of high proportions
of renewable energy supply on the
electricity grid
• Auto OEMs are rolling out Fuel Cell
Electric Vehicles (FCEVs) that require
a high purity hydrogen fuel. Hyundai
has commenced production, with
Toyota to follow suit later in 2014
and then Honda and others from
2015. Hydrogen fuel cell cars are now
being sold. Global hydrogen refuelling
station infrastructure programmes
are underway
• Air quality regulations are stimulating
the need for hydrogen as a clean fuel
for clean transport emissions, in city
regions around the world
• Energy security and fuel security
has risen to the top of the geo-political
agenda
• Price volatility of fossil fuels is driving
an industrial substitution to more
sustainable chemical processes

3. Energy
Storage
POWER-TO-GAS
“In Germany there is widespread
acceptance that the massive expansion
of fluctuating renewable power demands
the establishment of large scale Power-to-
Gas energy storage to manage the
resulting mismatch between energy
supply and demand. According to
a recent Deutsche Bank report by
natural resources economist Josef Auer,
Germany’s Energiewende is Driving
Power-to-Gas. In our view it will also drive
the renewable generation of hydrogen for
the transport sector.
Phil Doran
Managing Director, ITM Power GmbH

4. Phil Doran, MD, ITM Power GmbH at the Thüga Group’s Power-to-Gas Plant, Frankfurt
Project Thüga Group’s Power-to-Gas Plant
Partners
TOTAL PROJECT Funding
market
Badenova AG & Co. KG, Erdgas Mittelsachsen GmbH,
Energieversorgung Mittelrhein GmbH, Erdgas Schwaben GmbH,
ESWE Versorgungs AG, Gasversorgung Westerwald GmbH,
Mainova Aktiengesellschaft, Stadtwerke Ansbach GmbH,
Stadtwerke Bad Hersfeld GmbH, Thüga Energienetze GmbH,
WEMAG AG, e-rp GmbH and Thüga AG.
€1.5m
Power-to-Gas Energy Storage
“The combination of renewable
electrical energy and smart grids
together with storage form the
backbone of the Energiewende.”
Eveline Lemke
Rhineland-Palatinate Minister
of Economic Affairs
“Our gas distribution network
could thus be the battery of
the future.”
Michael Riechel
Member of the Board of Thüga AG
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Timeline of Thüga plant deliverables
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Order
Official
Commissioning
Ground
Breaking
Final
Acceptance
of the Plant Final
Payment
TÜV Permit
First Ever
Injection of
Hydrogen into
Gas Distribution
Network
Electrolyser
Arrives On-site
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Given the high volumes of energy that must be stored,
power-to-gas technology holds great significance.
According to Thüga’s analysis, energy
storage requirements in Germany could
be as high as 17 terawatt hours (TWh)
by 2020, and reach 50 TWh by 2050.
The municipal gas distribution network
can easily absorb these quantities.
Thirteen companies of the Thüga
group have combined their know-how
and capital in a project platform to
jointly invest in the development of
Power-to-Gas storage technology.
The focus is on testing the practicality
of Power-to-Gas technology.
The companies are confident that long
term this technology has the greatest
potential to store excess amounts of
renewable energy as the development
of storage technologies is one of the
main challenges for the energy transition
(Energiewende), if the integration of
wind and solar power is to succeed.
ITM Power’s proton exchange
membrane (PEM) electrolyser is the
core of the system in Frankfurt am Main.
The plant converts electrical energy into
chemical energy and thus facilitates the
storage of electrical energy. The gas
mixing plant ensures that the admixture
of hydrogen in the gas distribution
network does not exceed 2% by volume.
The plant is now entering its three year
operational phase, during which time
the plant will participate in the balancing
energy market and provide negative
balancing power.
That means, when too much power
is on the electrical grid, at the request
of the transmission system operator
(TSO), the load of the electrolyser
will be increased. In this case, the plant
absorbs the excess power and converts
it into hydrogen. This also contributes
to the stability of the electricity grid.
At the end of 2013, the plant injected
hydrogen for the first time into the
Frankfurt gas distribution network
becoming the first plant to inject
electrolytic generated hydrogen into
the German gas distribution network.
Final acceptance of the plant
was achieved at the end of March
2014, which reflected the timely
achievement of all milestones set.
The project is supported by the Hessian
Ministry for the Environment, Energy,
Agriculture and Consumer Protection.
Following the first phase of the project,
the participants are considering a second
project, which would use hydrogen and
carbon dioxide to produce synthetic
natural gas to be subsequently stored.
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HYDROGEN FUEL
“This technology was invented in the
UK and London already has a massive
research base around hydrogen and
alternative fuels. When you also consider
that we already export thousands of
vehicles from the UK that adds up to a big
opportunity for many new jobs working
in cutting edge new technologies. We
are doing everything we can to ensure
London is ready when the very first
commercially available hydrogen vehicles
begin to come to the market in 2015.”
Kit Malthouse
Deputy Mayor of London
for Business and Enterprise

7. www.island-hydrogen.com
ITM Power is leading the
‘Island Hydrogen’ Vehicle
Refuelling project on the Isle
of Wight supported by the
UK’s innovation agency, the
Technology Strategy Board.
The project integrates into the power
system, a hydrogen energy storage and
vehicle refuelling system on the Isle of
Wight, through the development and
optimisation of a control system to link
renewable energy supply, smart grid
controls and hydrogen production.
This will serve as an integrated
renewable energy-transport model
that can be replicated in smart cities,
as well as islands around the world.
ITM Power will be deploying two
hydrogen refuelling stations. Initial
planning permission applications lead
to ITM Power being granted planning
permission for five hydrogen refuelling
sites on the Isle of Wight.
Two of these sites were chosen for the
80kg/day and 15kg/day stations to take
forward for installation of hydrogen
refuellers ready for operation in
November 2014.
ITM Power will deploy one modular
80kg/day hydrogen generation unit,
the first deployment of a station this
size which is intended to form the initial
station size in the roll-out of hydrogen
refuelling stations in the UK H2Mobility
project. This modular design allows
generation capacity to be increased at
refuelling stations as demand increases.
The other station to be deployed
is for a 15kg/day marine refuelling
station to be located at Cheetah
Marine’s site in Ventnor. In addition to
deploying the stations, ITM Power was
also granted planning permission for five
locations for five hydrogen refuelling
sites on the Isle of Wight.
Two of these sites were chosen for the
80kg/day and 15kg/day stations to take
forward for installation of hydrogen
refuellers ready for operation in
November 2014. ITM Power sits on
three Working Groups of the ISO
Technical Committee 197, which has
as its stated scope the standardisation
in the field of systems and devices for
the production, storage, transport,
measurement and use of hydrogen.
Furthermore, ITM Power sits on the
British Compressed Gas Association
Technical Steering Committees with
particular emphasis on Code of Practice
41, which addresses The Design,
Construction, Maintenance and Operation
of Filling Stations Providing Gaseous Fuels.
Project Island Hydrogen
Partners
TOTAL PROJECT Funding
market
Technology Strategy Board, Cheetah Marine,
SSE, IBM, Vodafone, Arcola, University of Nottingham,
University of South Wales, NPL, Toshiba
£4.45m
Hydrogen Vehicle and Marine Refuelling
“The expertise required to achieve planning permission and satisfy
compliance bodies is often underestimated. I am delighted that
ITM Power has been successful in gaining approval to commence
the build of two hydrogen refuelling stations on the Isle of Wight.
Furthermore, the continued support from the Isle of Wight council and
their determination to become a prime location for hydrogen fuel cell
vehicle deployment provides a fantastic backdrop to this exciting project.”
Dr Graham Cooley
Chief Executive of ITM Power
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8. www.hyfive.eu/hydrogen-and-fuel-cells
Global leaders
sign £31m plan to
demonstrate the
commercial case
for hydrogen
vehicles.
HyFive is a pioneering £31 million
project involving leading motor
manufacturers, hydrogen fuel suppliers,
the Mayor of London’s Office and energy
consultancies to make hydrogen vehicles
a viable and environmentally friendly
choice for motorists across Europe.
Five different manufacturers have agreed
to deploy a total of 110 hydrogen fuel
cell vehicles at several European
locations (Bolzano, Copenhagen,
Innsbruck, London, Munich, Stuttgart)
and develop new clusters of hydrogen
refuelling stations.
ITM Power was selected by the
London Hydrogen Partnership to be
the Hydrogen Refuelling Station partner
for London. This resulted in an award
of contract to supply three ITM Power
electrolyser-based refuelling stations.
The Mayor of London’s Office
announced the award which is funded
by the European Union Fuel Cells and
Hydrogen Joint Undertaking project
called HyFive.
The contract is worth approximately
£2.8 million to ITM Power and results in
three 80kg/ day hydrogen stations being
deployed in London. These three new
stations will form part of three European
regions deploying six new 700bar
hydrogen refuelling stations and
incorporate 12 existing stations in the
project. The fuelling station networks
will offer hydrogen as a genuine fuelling
choice for end users. Working with
other partners in the project, Air
Products, Linde, OMV and the
Copenhagen Hydrogen Network,
will stimulate the network density
required for full commercial roll-out of
hydrogen refuelling and FCEVs across
Europe. The hydrogen stations are due
to be operational in 2015, by which time
the vehicle manufacturers in the
partnership will have started to put
hydrogen fuelled cars on sale in some
European markets.
The motor manufacturers who are part
of this project are working on developing
and demonstrating hydrogen powered
fuel cell cars. The prospect of these
becoming more widely available is
now seen as increasingly likely as the
currently high cost of the technology
falls and hydrogen powered vehicles
become affordable. Supporters of the
new technology point to the rapid
refuelling times for hydrogen cars
and their potential to cover over four
hundred miles before needing to be
refuelled. They also believe that fuel
cells will have the ability to be scaled
up to run larger vehicles such as buses
or trucks.
Project HyFive Refuelling Partner for London
Partners
TOTAL PROJECT Funding
market
The Mayor of London’s Office, BMW, Daimler, Honda, Hyundai,
Toyota, Air Products, Copenhagen Hydrogen Network, ITM
Power, Linde, OMV, Element Energy, PE INTERNATIONAL,
the Institute for Innovative Technology and the European Fuel Cell
and Hydrogen Joint Undertaking
£31m (£2.8m to ITM Power)
Vehicle Refuelling
“The 15 partners of the HyFive project will work together to advance
the awareness, understanding, viability and uptake of zero-emission
hydrogen-powered vehicles, like the Hyundai ix35 Fuel Cell.
The collective mid-term goal is to grow a pan-European refuelling
network and ensure more vehicles are seen on the road.”
Byung Kwon Rhim
President of Hyundai Motor Europe
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9. Stephen Jones, MD, ITM
Power Inc. examines the
hydrogen refuelling station
bound for Hyundai, California.
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Project California Refuelling Stations
Partners
TOTAL PROJECT Funding
market
Hyundai, Powertech, H2 Frontier Inc, Riverside
$5,125,000 to both stations
Hydrogen Vehicle Refuelling
“Fuel cell technologies are an important part of an all-of-the-above
approach to diversify America’s transportation sector, reduce our
dependence on foreign oil and increase our competitiveness in the
global market.”
David Danielson
Assistant Secretary for Energy
Efficiency and Renewable Energy

10. As a result of Assembly Bill
32, California is required
to significantly reduce its
carbon emissions state-wide.
From a utility perspective, this means
that an increasing proportion of
renewable energy will need to be
introduced into the electrical grid.
As a result California (CA) has set up
a Renewables Portfolio Standard (RPS)
of 33% total renewable energy by 2020.
This is likely to increase to 50% by 2030.
The increase in renewable energy into
the electrical grid results in the need for
storage during times when the renewable
energy production may be sub optimum.
This has led to the California public
utilities commission mandating 1.3GW of
energy storage by 2020 and opportunities
to leverage the natural gas grid to store
renewable energy, an approach that is
now near commercial in Germany.
In addition AB-8 bill was passed in
September 2013 providing up to $200m
of funding for hydrogen infrastructure
in the state of California over a ten
year period with the aim of at least
100 stations by 2024.
ITM Power’s Chino project was awarded
under this program to supply a 100kg
per day system to Hydrogen Frontier Inc
for incorporation into a refuelling station
located at Hyundai’s technical centre in
Chino, CA.
ITM Power’s other station award for
the city of Riverside California was also
through the same program and will
see ITM Power lead a consortium of
partners to deploy and operate a 100kg
per day public hydrogen station. The
station is located in one of the prime
areas highlighted by the CEC; at the City
of Riverside’s Alternative Fuelling Facility
close to the 91 Freeway. The refuelling
unit will replace a smaller, outdated
station and will be capable of generating
100kg/day of hydrogen with the ability
to dispense at both 350 and 700 bar.
The station will be operational by
October 2015.
The NOPA from the CEC comes
as part of PON 13-607, the second
solicitation in a ten year programme
to deploy refuelling stations across
California to support the roll-out
of Fuel Cell Electric Vehicles (FCEVs).
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11. Renewable
Chemistry
decarbonising
chemicals
“The British scientific and technological
revolution is something to be proud of.
By investing in these great technologies
I firmly believe that the UK will continue
to be at the forefront of the global
technology race.”
David Willetts
Science Minister

12. ITM Power is leading a consortium project to
demonstrate the decarbonisation of fertiliser
production, which is responsible for a material
proportion of global greenhouse gas emissions.
The funding comes from the UK’s
innovation agency, the Technology
Strategy Board, under its Agri-Tech
programme. The project is to design
and build a system for the production
of renewable fertiliser.
The integrated electrolyser based
pilot scale system will be trialled at
the UK farm owned by Waitrose.
As a responsible retailer, Waitrose
always strives to minimise its impact on
the environment. Support of sustainable
agriculture is one way in which the
retailer does this – and the involvement
of the retailer’s own farm, Leckford,
in this pilot could support this aim by
helping develop a process that could
greatly reduce the environmental
footprint where fertiliser is used.
With the growing global population
increasing demand for foodstuffs,
and as less acreage is dedicated to crop
cultivation, yields must increase. 50% of
current global food production relies on
the use of NH3 based fertilisers and is
key to increasing yields.
The challenge addressed by this
project is the need to drastically
reduce the emissions associated with
the production of NH3 based fertilisers.
Commercial production of NH3 is a
large scale industrial process converting
natural gas (or other fossil fuels) into
gaseous hydrogen, which is catalytically
reacted with nitrogen to form anhydrous
liquid NH3. Hydrogen can be produced
more simply and more sustainably by
the electrolysis of water using renewable
electricity – thus decoupling NH3
production from fossil fuels, substantially
decarbonising the process, and providing
a means of utilising waste CO2 in urea
production in line with EU climate
action objectives.
Project Renewable Chemistry: UREA
Partners
TOTAL PROJECT Funding
market
Waitrose, Technology Strategy Board
£1.37m
Renewable Fertiliser
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13. In 2013, ITM Power became the operator of a Hydrogen
Mini Grid located at the Advanced Manufacturing Park
(AMP) in Rotherham, which since its installation in 2007
has never been operational.
The Hydrogen Mini Grid (HMG) is a
unique facility consisting of a 225kW
wind turbine coupled directly to an
electrolyser, 200kg of hydrogen storage,
a hydrogen dispensing unit and a 30kW
fuel cell system capable of providing
backup power generation for
nearby buildings.
The facility is currently being upgraded
as a showcase for ITM Power’s world-class
hydrogen generation equipment
and will be used to provide retail
hydrogen fuel services within the
Sheffield City Region.
The facility will also serve to develop
ITM Power’s modular commercial
platform for hydrogen generation
systems, Power-to-Gas and refuelling
solutions. The system is designed so that
energy from the wind turbine is used to
provide power for some of the buildings
on the AMP, with excess energy being
used by the electrolyser to generate
hydrogen gas. The gas is then
compressed and stored ready for
dispensing into hydrogen fuel cell
vehicles. Particular focus will be on
the national hydrogen mobility initiatives
being undertaken in countries around
the world.
The M1 motorway was highlighted as
a key route for the early deployment
of hydrogen refuelling in the UK in
the published UK H2Mobility Phase 1
Report. The Advanced Manufacturing
Park is just two miles from the M1
motorway network and within reach of
the large population centres of Sheffield,
Rotherham, Barnsley and Doncaster,
giving the facility a very large catchment
area and providing the perfect position
for a commercial refuelling station.
The site already has planning permission
for hydrogen systems and much of the
required infrastructure and groundwork
is already in place, which allows for very
low set-up costs to install and use ITM
Power’s non-invasive hydrogen
generation technology.
As the wind turbine is already installed,
it allows 100% renewable hydrogen to be
produced on the site. This hydrogen is a
fundamental chemical building block for
a variety of commodity chemicals and
fuels including ammonia and synthetic
methane for which there are massive
world markets.
Project Wind Hydrogen Development Platform
Partners
TOTAL PROJECT Funding
market
Advanced Manufacturing Park, Sheffield University,
DeMontfort University, UPS, Rotherham MBC
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“We are delighted to have been selected as the operator for the HMGS
in Rotherham. The site has huge potential and ITM Power is perfectly
positioned to realise this potential with our unique technology.
Together with our partners, we will be able to use the site as a retail
hydrogen fuel station for the area and it will provide a repeatable
blueprint for similar systems to be deployed around the world.”
Dr Graham Cooley
CEO, ITM Power plc
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