Thus the first Uno-X hydrogen station – Tu.no

When Uno-X opens its first hydrogen station in Norway, is simultaneously a world first:

This is the first hydrogen station that uses excess energy from an energy-positive buildings to produce hydrogen.

Powerhouse Kjørbo

filling station, which should be ready in the autumn, built at the office building Powerhouse Kjørbo in Bærum.

During a rehabilitation which was completed in 2014 were here installed solar modules on roofs whose annual energy production of approximately 200,000 kWh. The energy needed for ventilation, lighting, heating and cooling is estimated at about half.

Norwegian NEL ASA delivers technology.

– We we set up an electrolyser which is adapted to be use the building’s surplus energy to produce hydrogen locally, says NEL director Jon Andre Løkke in a statement.

Two tons a year

It takes about 50 kWh to produce one kilo of hydrogen .

– in other words, the excess energy from the office building could provide approximately two tons of hydrogen fuel a year. We would spend hours with the energy to produce hydrogen and see an award in the power grid for other production, says Bjorn Simonsen, Director of Business Development and Public Affairs at NEL, to TU.

He said that they will save “some one hundred kilograms” hydrogen on site, but as the electrolyzer and drive have been launched yet, he does not want to go further in detail.

– What I can say is that this is a new generation station with numerous innovations, yet so mature that it gives customers the same experience as a regular gas station provides today.

at least 20 stations

Uno-X Hydrogen aS is a new company where Reitan group’s fuel company Uno-X group owns 51 percent and hydrogen company NEL owns 49 percent.

in January, the NEL NOK 7.5 million in support from Enova to demonstrate a new and more effective hydrogen filling.

in December last year notified these actors that they had plans to roll out at least 20 new hydrogen filling stations in Norway by 2020.

the development plan is as follows

• Bergen – summer 2016

 

• Oslo – summer 2016

 

• Akershus 1 – autumn 2016

 

• Akershus 2 – Fall 2016

 

• Trondheim, Bergen, Stavanger, Hamar, Kristiansand – 2017

 

13 million from the public

In addition to Enova support, the forthcoming Kjørbo station received 5.7 million from Akershus county.

– hydrogen cars will play a key role in reducing emissions from road traffic. Therefore it feels good for us to have in place the agreement for the first of the 20 hydrogen stations Uno-X to build by 2020. Over 80,000 cars will pass the station on Kjørbo daily when it opens this fall, and we strongly believe that many of these few years is hydrogen vehicles, says CEO Vegar Kulset in Uno-X group in the message.