ITM Power lands airport deal
ENERGY storage and green fuel company ITM Power said today that Stansted Airport and DHL have signed a deal to trial its refuelling unit.
Logistics provider DHL Supply Chain and Stansted Airport will take part in the Hydrogen On Site Trials (HOST) of ITM Power’s transportable high pressure refuelling unit (HFuel).
The unit under construction is supported by a Technology Strategy Board (TSB) grant and partners Gateway to London and Revolve Technologies.
The trials will start in 2011 and will see the operation and refuelling of two Hydrogen Internal Combustion Engine (HICE) Revolve Technologies Ford Transit vehicles with hydrogen produced on site at the point of use, at sites operated by participating companies and in the Gateway to London development area.
Membership of HOST provides each partner with a one week free trial of HFuel and the two Revolve HICE transit vehicles, and an option to lease both HFuel and vehicles for additional weeks.
The demonstrations will be managed and operated by Sheffield-based ITM Power in liaison with site owners’ operations and management.
ITM Power‘s chief executive Graham Cooley said: “We are delighted that such high profile transport logistics companies have agreed to join the HOST programme. They will appraise the potential of our technology to decarbonise return to base transport logistics vehicles and address the important sustainability issue of eliminating the carbon footprint of their fuel supply.
“The trials are an important part of demonstrating the potential of ITM Power’s HFuel technology to the marketplace and we expect other transport logistics companies to be joining the HOST scheme in the near future.”
