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Author: Stephen Corrigan
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Plans for a ‘hydrogen valley’ at Galway Port, which were announced with much fanfare in two years ago, have had to be totally reconfigured after a major backer withdrew its support.
However, a meeting of Galway City Council was told this week that EU funding for the project had been secured, and Galway buses, cars – and even flights to the Aran Islands – could soon be hydrogen fuelled.
The Galway Hydrogen Hub was announced by the then-Taoiseach, Micheál Martin, in April 2022, with plans to produce green hydrogen in Galway, using wind energy from Connemara.
City councillors were told at a meeting on Monday that since then, SSE Renewables – the project’s main backer – had withdrawn, forcing its remaining members to “reconfigure”.
Project Coordinator, Rory Monaghan, a Senior Lecturer of Energy Systems Engineering at University of Galway, told the meeting that the university itself had stepped into the breach and was now leading the project.
As a result, the hydrogen would no longer be produced in Galway but instead would be drawn from the midlands, by road, and stored at a site in the Port of Galway for distribution as part of a €54 million plan.
Caption: Galway Docks.
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