Can Scotland become Europe’s energy saviour? – Jeremy Grant – Herald

Momentum has quietly been building in recent months among policymakers and the hydrogen industry around the idea of Harnessing the massive amounts of wind power set to be generated at wind farms in the North Sea, then sending the hydrogen created using that renewable electricity down a vast undersea pipeline to the German port city of Emden. A key element of this would be the wind farms envisaged as part of the ScotWind project.

To some, this may sound like a pipe dream. For one thing, no-one has ever built an undersea pipeline for hydrogen, certainly not one on this scale.

Yet the nuts and bolts of how it might work were laid out last month in a report by the Net Zero Technology Centre (NZTC), an Aberdeen-based renewable energy technology consultancy funded by the UK and Scottish governments. https://www.scotsman.com/business/can-scotland-become-europes-energy-saviour-jeremy-grant-4345019?fbclid=IwAR1-_4iMucywRAHLGtOSAfvdU5w-ZoQalchyuA8QThiwO4HcElOLMpn3ZXs