Powering Isolated Territories with Hydrogen Energy Systems (PITCHES)

推介将展示在偏远社区使用氢气经济的可行性。Pitch将在奥克尼群岛部署和展示一个集成的氢气解决方案，包括可再生能源的氢气发电、输送和使用。该项目将建立系统，将氢气从两个发电地点输送到许多最终用途，为柯克沃尔港区提供电力，为当地建筑物供暖，并为燃料电池电动汽车车队提供燃料。Pitch项目将通过测试系统的配置，并确定最适合发展中国家离网社区的商业模式，探索这种系统在孤立的离网社区(包括撒哈拉以南非洲)的可复制性。推介将展示现有的氢技术可用于开发新的能源系统，以满足偏远社区的交通、电力和供暖需求，表明基于氢的能源系统有潜力减少对进口燃料的依赖，减少碳排放，并在未来随着技术的发展降低能源成本。

PITCHES will demonstrate the feasibility of a hydrogen economy in a remote community. PITCHES will deploy and demonstrate an integrated hydrogen solution, including renewably-powered generation, delivery and use of hydrogen, in the Orkney Islands. The project will put in place systems to transport hydrogen from 2 generation locations to a number of end uses, providing electricity to the Kirkwall harbour district, heating local buildings and fuelling a fleet of fuel cell electric vehicles. The PITCHES project will explore the replicability of such systems to isolated, off-grid communities, including in Sub Saharan Africa, by testing configurations of the system, and identifying business models which best suit off-grid communities in developing countries. PITCHES will demonstrate that existing hydrogen technologies can be used to develop a new energy system to meet transport, electricity and heating needs of remote communities, showing that hydrogen based energy systems have the potential to reduce reliance on imported fuels, reduce carbon emissions, and in future as the technology develops, to reduce energy costs.