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Architects and designers are experiencing continued pressure from clients for cost efficiencies, but at the same time there are increasing demands for these savings to be achieved alongside meaningful reductions in carbon emissions. Can you really reduce costs at the same time as shrinking their carbon footprint?

Increasing numbers of sites are installing fuel cells for site heat & power, and fuel cell CHP is now technically and commercially viable in the UK. Uptake of fuel cell CHP is increasing rapidly, with projects such as the Transport for London emergency response centre at the Palestra building selecting fuel cell CHP on commercial merit. Other commercial buildings have recently selected fuel cell CHP in preference to solar PV arrays as the most cost effective option for meeting on-site power generation and carbon reduction targets.

This event will demonstrate how new low carbon technologies offer a viable way forward to deliver commercial and environmental benefits. It will also consider the practical aspects of integrating distributed CHP technologies into buildings, and in particular the challenges of efficiently managing heat loads.

17:30 – 18:00 Registration

18:00 – 18:05 Welcome by Jim Hart, Edinburgh Centre for Carbon Innovation

18:05 – 18:20 Fuel Cells & Hydrogen: What, Where, & When

Nigel Holmes, CEO of the Scottish Hydrogen & Fuel Cell Association (SHFCA), will outline the current state of commercial deployment of fuel cell technologies, illustrating this with examples in transport, stationary and mobile power applications. He will also explain why Hydrogen as a low to zero-emission energy vector is such a good fit with renewable energy sources. He will highlight the current opportunities for fuel cell deployed in Combined Heat & Power in the built environment.

18:20 – 18:40 Fuel Cell CHP: Reducing Carbon, Cutting Costs

John Lidderdale is Managing Director of Logan Energy Europe. Logan Energy was established in 1995, and have installed over 130 fuel cell solutions giving them unrivalled experience of the integration and installation of fuel cell technologies from a wide range of manufacturers. John will explain the financial and carbon reduction benefits which can be achieved using fuel cell stationary power in Combined Heat & Power (CHP) and Combined Cooling Heat & Power (CCHP) for industrial and commercial fuel cell installations, along with examples of Logan Energy projects in this area including the recent Transport for London Palestra project.

18:40 – 19:00 Fuel Cells : Micro-CHP Design Practicalities

Allan Cumming brings over 40 years of experience, and is one of the few people who have practical experience of integrating fuel cell micro-CHP into a domestic building project delivered in 2005. Allan will illustrate his talk with reference to his work for the Berwickshire Housing Association Level 4 project, a 1kW fuel cell running off the natural gas supply, as well as other recent projects.

19:00 – 19:20 Micro-CHP with Fuel Cells

Stuart Deed of Intelligent Energy CHP will discuss the benefits of deployment of fuel cells cell and hydrogen technologies into domestic and small scale CHP, and the opportunities in Scotland for working in partnership with key customers and suppliers. Stuart has been involved with the IECHP business since its formation in 2007, as a joint venture between SSE plc and Intelligent Energy. The business has been established to assist in the commercialisation of a range of heating and power technologies with a specific focus on long term delivery of fuel cell and hydrogen based solutions.

19:20 – 19:40 Integrating CHP with Heat Storage

Andrew Bissell will focus on the pressing issue of energy storage, and in particular how storing heat can help improve energy efficiency. Sunamp is developing Heat Batteries that store heat energy more compactly – around a quarter the size of a hot water tank. Sunamp Heat Batteries can store both heat and cool and have compelling applications in domestic, commercial, industrial and automotive markets. This includes a wide range of applications such as solar thermal hot water, combined heat and power, waste heat recovery and upgrading, air source heat pumps and climate control.

19:40 – 20:00 Question & Answer Session