31JUL2019 - NEWS - Islands’ ferries to offer a greener travel option

Looking at Hydrogen to fuel Islands’ ferries to offer a greener travel option and a huge boost to the Western Isles’ economy. Point and Sandwick Trust, in collaboration with a number of industry partners have published a feasibility study to assess the suitability of using hydrogen produced from local wind farms to power future ferry services operating in the Western Isles and West Coast of Scotland. The study was part-funded by the Scottish Government’s Low Carbon Infrastructure Transition Programme. The project looked at the practical and economic feasibility of using new island wind farms to produce zero-carbon ‘green’ hydrogen fuel for future types of clean emission ferries operating on the established Caledonian MacBrayne routes. Green hydrogen is produced by using electricity to split water molecules (H2O) into oxygen (O2) and hydrogen (H2) via an electrolyser.