Wates Group sees hydrogen as a major contributor to its plans to reduce carbon emissions across its operations after successfully trialling a JCB generator powered by the fuel.
The company, one of the UK’s leading family-owned development, building and property maintenance companies, has been trialling a JCB 60kVA hydrogen combustion generator on a site near Wolverhampton. Coupled with a 104kWh Powerpack battery storage unit, the intelligent combined power system can operate on battery power alone, as a hybrid (using both battery and generator power), or hydrogen-powered only.
Adam Cannon, Project Director at Wates, said: “One of the questions we get from customers is how can you make site set-up more energy efficient and more carbon neutral? We’ve been trying other fuels, but they’ve been a bit of a challenge. Hydrogen for me is the way forward.It is completely new thinking for power for our accommodation on site and it really reduces the burden from the statutory authority having to bring new cables and infrastructure to site. It will allow us to be standalone and to offer a carbon neutral offering to our customers.”
Photos of Wates Group and JCB
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