The Everywh2ere Project—part of the EU's Horizon 2020 research and innovation programme to ensure the sustainable development and competitiveness of the European economy—will develop gensets using hydrogen fuel cells instead of the traditional fuel-based solutions. This will eliminate the CO2 emissions, noise and fumes produced by existing generator types, leading to hardware that is more environmentally sustainable and can be used in applications where conventional generators are not suitable.
The twelve partners* forming the consortium come from different areas of specialisation (hydrogen supply, engine manufacture, environmental consultancy, and construction), which will generate synergies for the adaptation of the hydrogen engine technology currently used in ships and trucks to applications in construction sites, music festivals, public events in cities, emergency situations, natural disasters and critical buildings (such as hospitals, data centres, etc.).
The five-year project, with a budget of approximately EUR7m, is aimed at realising 8 plug and play fuel-cell gensets, with different outputs (25kW and 100kW), for testing from 2020 onwards at, among others, a number of music festivals, and at construction sites managed by ACCIONA, such as roads and tunnels, with a view to extrapolating the experience for commercial marketability from 2023.
