L4D Learning for Democracy

" The European Commission is supporting the Coordination
Action “HyLights” and the Integrated Project “Roads2HyCom” in
the field of Hydrogen and Fuel Cells. The two projects support
the Commission in the monitoring and coordination of ongoing
activities of the Hydrogen and Fuel Cell Platform (HFP), and
provide input to the HFP for the planning and preparation of
future research and demonstration activities within an integrated
EU strategy.
The two projects are complementary and are working in close
coordination. HyLights focuses on the preparation of the
large-scale demonstration for transport applications, while
Roads2Hycom focuses on identifying opportunities for research
activities relative to the needs of industrial stakeholders and
Hydrogen Communities that could contribute to the early
adoption of hydrogen as a universal energy vector.
Further information on the projects and their partners is available
on the project web-sites www.roads2hy.com and www.hylights.org
Members of the Roads2Hycom project contributed to the
contents of this volume and commented on draft versions.
Their input is gratefully acknowledged."
Element Energy (editors)
May 2008

Contents

1.      Hydrogen Technology and Communities.............................6
1.1 Introduction...............................................................................6
1.2 Stationary Applications.............................................................. 7
1.2.1 Opportunities for using Stationary Fuel Cells...........................8
1.2.2 Timescales and Costs............................................................11
1.2.3 Case Study........................................................................... 13
1.3 Transport Applications............................................................ 14
1.3.1 Strategic Opportunities.........................................................17
1.3.2 Timescales and Costs.......................................................... 18
1.3.3 Case Study.......................................................................... 19
1.4 Portable Applications.............................................................. 20
1.5 Infrastructure Projects............................................................. 21
1.5.1 Strategic Opportunities........................................................ 22
1.5.2 Timescales and Costs.......................................................... 22
1.5.3 Case Study........................................................................... 23
1.6 Costs of Hydrogen...................................................................24
1.7 Typical Cost Items of a Project.................................................29
2.      Benefits of Community Engagement.................................. 31
2.1 Technology benefits................................................................ 31
2.1.1 Generating early markets...................................................... 31
2.1.2 Field testing...........................................................................34
2.1.3 Public acceptance...................................................................34
2.2 Community ben.........................................................................34
2.2.1 Economic Development......................................................... 35
2.2.2 Skills retention and development.......................................... 35
2.2.3 Pollution................................................................................36
2.2.4 Security of Energy Supply.......................................................38

2.2.5 Local energy use....................................................................38
2.2.6 Branding and publicity............................................................39
3.      Key success criteria for hydrogen communities................. 40
3.1 Introduction.............................................................................. 40
3.2 Political Will............................................................................... 40
3.3 Level of Public Acceptance and Stakeholder Involvement ...........42
3.4 Funding......................................................................................45
3.5 Regional Attitudes and Policies.................................................. 47
3.6 Linking with National Level and EU Level Policy.......................... 51
3.7 Geographic Success Factors....................................................... 52
4.      Writing a Strategy & Developing a Project............................ 54
4.1 Strategic issues...........................................................................54
4.2 Developing a project proposal.....................................................55
4.2.1 Technology choice....................................................................56
4.2.2 Budget and financing............................................................... 57
4.2.3 Timescales............................................................................... 57
4.2.4 Partners....................................................................................58
4.2.5 End users..................................................................................59
4.2.6 Technology procurement..........................................................59
4.2.7 Sustaining the project.............................................................. 60
5.      Next steps................................................................................61