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 The Scandinavian Hydrogen Highway Partnership (SHHP) is working towards making Scandinavia a region where hydrogen is available and used in a network of re-fuelling stations.
One of the first fuelling stations has been operating for several years in Malmö with hydrogen from wind power. The aim is to have a network of hydrogen stations ready by 2015 for 100 buses, 500 cars and 500 speciality vehicles.
The SHHP constitutes a transnational network that catalyses and coordinates collaboration between three national bodies, HyNor of Norway, Hydrogen Link of Denmark and Hydrogen Sweden. Within the Nordic countries there is a long standing and strong collaboration between Icelandic New Energy and the Scandinavian Hydrogen Highway Partnership, with the purpose of deploying fuel cell vehicles and constructing and clustering hydrogen fuelling stations in a cross country infrastructure network.
From December 2011 Hynor Oslo Buss will operate 5 fuel cell buses, with hydrogen as the fuel. The project includes the building of a hydrogen station and is part of the European demonstration project (CHIC) of fuel cell buses.
The Belgian Company, Van Hool, is supplying the hydrogen buses.
SHHP has announced that Hyundai Kia Motors and key hydrogen stakeholders from the Nordic countries, Sweden, Denmark, Norway and Iceland have signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) with the aim of collaborating towards market deployment of zero emission hydrogen powered fuel cell electric vehicles (FCEV). The Memorandum was signed in the Swedish Embassy in Seoul, Korea.
Following the signing of the MoU, Hyundai Kia and the Nordic partners plan to collaborate on advancing the deployment of an increasing volume of FCEV‟s and widespread hydrogen infrastructure in the Nordic countries, setting the scene for commercialization in 2015, as announced by most of the key automotive players. |
