The European Marine Energy Centre (EMEC) in Orkney has been awarded funding to conduct a real-time trial of artificial intelligence (AI) software for optimizing hydrogen production and storage.
The HyAI 2.0 project seeks to demonstrate the usage of an artificial intelligence platform called HyAI by integrating it into EMEC’s hydrogen plant on the Orkney island of Eday. The Energy Entrepreneur Fund of the Department of Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy funded the initiative with £494k.
HyAI is an artificial intelligence-powered hydrogen management platform developed by project lead H2GO Power, a pioneer in hydrogen-based renewable energy storage technologies. The cloud-based software makes intelligent, data-driven judgments to assure system safety and dependability, as well as to determine the most cost-effective times for hydrogen generation and storage.
The 12-month trial will be conducted in two phases. The first phase will involve conducting proof-of-value simulations utilizing data from commercial use cases given by project partners EMEC and National Grid Gas Transmission.
The platform will be connected into EMEC’s hydrogen production plant on Eday and tested as a fully integrated pilot in the second phase. The HyAI system is designed to govern hydrogen production in real time by combining historical and anticipated data on weather, renewable energy sources such as wind and tidal, hydrogen storage capacity, and electricity prices. Multiple experiments will be done to validate the HyAI software system’s efficacy, beginning with advisory control trials and progressing to semiautonomous control trials.
