H2moves Hydrogen Station Opens in Oslo
22 Nov 2011
Norway’s newest hydrogen refuelling station was officially opened yesterday by the Mayor of Oslo Fabian Stang. The high-profile event was well attended by local government, other VIPs, stakeholders and press, including Fuel Cell Today, and was also broadcast on Norwegian television (photos here).
This state-of-the-art station uses entirely renewable electricity to drive electrolysis, generating up to 200 kg of hydrogen a day and dispensing it at 700 bar and in under three minutes to fill a tank. It is a deliverable of the Scandinavian Hydrogen Highway Partnership’s H2moves Scandinavia project and is particularly notable for the fact that all the participating members are so well represented. The station was built by Danish company H2Logic and is situated on the premises of the Norwegian independent research organisation SINTEF, under the aegis of HyNor. The secretariat of Hydrogen Sweden has directed considerable effort to the coordination and marketing of the project, and will base staff in Oslo to ensure effective continuation of this.
The event also saw Hyundai’s first official showing of the SUV ix35 FCEV in Norway following the signing earlier this year of a letter of intent between the carmaker and the Nordic countries. Two ix35 FCEVs will join ten Mercedes-Benz B-class F-CELL from Daimler in Oslo (a further two ix35 will be in demonstration in Copenhagen). Speaking at the event, Allan Rushforth, Senior Vice President and COO of Hyundai Motor Europe, stated that the company is “entirely committed” to the 2015 target for series production of its FCEV. Professor Herbert Kohler, Vice President eDrive & Future Mobility of Daimler AG, in turn confirmed that 2014 will see the start of the roll-out of its production fuel cell vehicles. Both stressed the importance of early infrastructure and the need for renewable hydrogen.
It is clear from the commitment of the various partners that the H2moves project is expected to contribute substantially to achieving Scandinavia’s aim of being an early market for hydrogen fuel cell vehicles.
More detail on the project and its deliverables can be found at: www.scandinavianhydrogen.org/
For more information on the launch see the press release here.
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