RWE, the UK’s leading power generator, and H2GO Power, a company expert in the use of breakthrough software and hardware solutions for hydrogen energy systems, have formed an exciting partnership to explore the use of innovative technology in hydrogen deployment.

The project initiating this partnership (HyAI4RES), will investigate the use of AI technologies on large scale power generation facilities, aiming to overcome barriers to the deployment of green hydrogen.

In this project, H2GO Power will apply its proprietary AI-enabled software management platform, HyAI^TM, on a renewable energy site being developed by RWE. HyAI4RES has been funded by the Department for Energy Security and Net Zero’s Net Zero Innovation Portfolio (NZIP). The HyAI4RES project was one of 8 that were recently awarded funding from the government as part of the AI for Decarbonisation Innovation Programme – Stream 2, with a funding award of £130,000.

HyAI^TM is a first-of-its-kind AI-enabled software management platform, designed specifically for the hydrogen market’s unique needs, and has been developed by H2GO Power. It operates with proprietary optimisation algorithms, and can work with multiple objectives from production rates and intermittencies to environmental footprint, giving optimal results to end-users on cost and environmental impacts by forecasting and scheduling system operations.

The renewable energy site under development by RWE and being introduced to this project, is an onshore wind farm in Scotland. This will serve as a pilot scheme for the HyAI^TM platform to assess varied data and demonstrate its unique capability of supporting complex energy systems while considering extreme events through a product upgrade.

As a case study for this project, HyAI^TM will present the optimal hydrogen system configuration for producing hydrogen at this wind farm and using it to fully or partially displace the seasonally variable natural gas requirements of an off-gas grid town, currently fuelled by LNG imports. The town’s natural gas supply is operated by SGN who actively support this project by providing relevant data for the simulation’s needs.

Steve Boughton, Director of UK Hydrogen Development at RWE said: “Hydrogen innovations and technology such as H2GO Power’s product will be invaluable to understand the emerging market and optimisation of renewable generation with hydrogen generation and demand. This is an exciting development in RWE’s green hydrogen plans, with our ambitions to invest up to £15 billion in the UK in sustainable and cost-effective green energy projects by 2030. Projects like this will help the UK achieve its target for 10GW of low carbon hydrogen production and play an essential role in the pathway to net zero.”

Dr. Enass Abo-Hamed, CEO at H2GO Power said: “We are very excited to be joining forces with RWE, a global market leader in the renewable energy industry with commitment to Net Zero that is evident in their innovative Hydrogen initiatives and projects across the UK and globally. By implementing and testing cutting-edge AI technology on projects of significant scalability, we are looking to demonstrate the sizable impact of innovation on making Hydrogen projects economically viable and efficiently manageable.”

H2GO Power develops and deploys breakthrough software and hardware solutions for hydrogen energy systems. With products to accommodate a customer base with variable requirements from transportation to heating to power to industrial feedstocks.

RWE is proactively investigating hydrogen opportunities across the UK including the potential development of green hydrogen plants at Pembroke, Teesside, Didcot and Markinch, near Fife. The company has a wealth of knowledge and experience in the development of green hydrogen projects across Europe including involvement in GET H2. The company is targeting 2GW of green hydrogen development in its core markets by 2030.