Principle Power Wins FEED Deal for Dolphyn Floating

Wind-to-Hydrogen Project

October 12, 2022, by Adnan Memija

Environmental Resources Management (ERM), the developer of the Dolphyn technology,

has awarded a Front-End Engineering Design (FEED) contract to Principle Power for a 10
MW floating wind-to-hydrogen demonstration project in Scotland.

The ERM Dolphyn concept employs a modular design integrating electrolysis and a
wind turbine on a moored floating semi-submersible platform which uses Principle
Power’s WindFloat technology to produce hydrogen from seawater, using wind
power as the energy source.

“The ERM Dolphyn project, a first-of-a-kind, is an innovative integrated system

combining all the technologies required to bring the latest floating wind and hydrogen
 production technologies together to enable offshore wind resources to contribute
toward hydrogen production at scale”, said David Caine, Partner at ERM.

Expected to begin operations in late 2025, the 10 MW demonstrator project is a key

step in proving the Dolphyn concept prior to commercial-scale deployment,
Principle Power said.

The company also said that commercial-scale projects of over 300 MW are under
development and could be delivered before the end of the decade which could be
followed by large-scale (GW) deployment in 2030.

The contract with Principle Power was signed after ERM Dolphyn was awarded GBP
8.62 million of funding from the UK Government, via the Low Carbon Hydrogen
Supply 2 Competition.

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Principle Power said that ERM Dolphyn is a core project for the UK’s Hydrogen
coast strategy which is expected to help generate over 10,000 jobs by 2030 and
more than 100,000 by 2050.

Located off the coast of Aberdeen, the project, when fully developed at an
expected 4 GW total capacity, could supply energy to heat more than 1.5 million
homes with no carbon emissions.

ERM Dolphyn entered the commercial demonstration phase in May after the
developer signed a contract with Offshore Design Engineering (ODE) for the
topside FEED services.
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In March, ERM signed an agreement with Source Energie to jointly develop projects
in the Celtic Sea that combine floating wind and green hydrogen production.

The first of these is planned to be developed at the 300 MW Dylan site, located
approximately 60 kilometres off the Pembrokeshire coast, where the companies’
joint project is expected to be operational by the end of 2028.

In August, Source Energie announced another GW-scale floating wind-to-hydrogen

project located to the south of Dylan, named Myrddin, that would potentially use
ERM Dolphyn technology.