Project Summary
Solar panels on 5G buoy digital ocean platforms have been found to generate a notable amount of excess power. The project aims to explore and establish a proof-of-concept solution for generating and storing electricity and hydrogen on these platforms. The objective is to create an offshore zero-carbon refueling center for wind farm construction, wind farm service vessels, and other vessels that require refueling but do not wish to return to port. This innovative initiative has the potential to offer a sustainable and efficient solution to the emerging needs of the marine industry.
Project Achievements
The project was successful as we were able to successfully demonstrate a working platform and also build up a feasible and viable financial model with a cost per KG not far different to the market norm. For us at this stage we were looking for a ballpark figure and that was met.
Conclusions
In conclusion, the project has been a huge success, we have not only proven the technical feasibility, but we have also proven the financial viability and secured a potential route to market. Further benefits of the TRIG program have been in terms of networking and enabling us to have routes to partnerships in the sector.
Next Steps
We are now seeking funding for development of full scale test system, this will be whilst we firm up a commercial customer to trail with. We think this is likely to be at a significant scale up from the existing lab system. We would also like to then take the project into a live testbed environmen t, we have a number of different floating platforms available for this, but we would need to grow a clean maritime consortium a little further to enable this to happen. This wou ld be via a number of partnerships that we will be forming up. We have built a collaboration within this project, and as such from this we will look to forming this close for a follow on stage, and also seeking a trial customer.
