Hydrogen Community Lolland - Alternative Fuel Technologies

In Denmark, a test community is proving hydrogen power is not 10 years into the future, but that it started back in 2006. On the island of Lolland, located in the Baltic Sea, the Danes had a problem - they produced 50 percent more electricity from wind power than they used. So what do they do? Develop a plan to create the first full-scale hydrogen-powered city of course!

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Known as the Lolland Hydrogen Community, their vision is to be the European role model for community testing and implementation of full-scale hydrogen technology. The strategy is to use three phases to retrofit and redesign the infrastructure of the village of Vestenskov, an existing community on Lolland. Once complete, all the homes in the town will be supported solely by energy from hydrogen. In phase one, a demonstration facility for residential Fuel Cell Combined Heat and Power (CHP) was constructed in the town of Nakskov, another town on the island, and began operations officially in November 2006. Excess wind energy powers an electrolyser which separates hydrogen and oxygen molecules that make water (hence H2O).