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At an event taking place today is to announce details of Ireland’s first “Hydrogen Valley” earmarked for development in Galway Harbour located near to the city centre. 

As Connacht Tribune reports the major zero-emissions fuel facility will be located at the Harbour and will research, produce and use renewable hydrogen gas.

It’s led by Galway Hydrogen Hub – or GH2 – which is a consortium of national and local stakeholders.

The meeting to unveil the vision for the project will take place at NUI Galway this afternoon at 2.

John O’Sullivan, SSE Renewables’ Project Manager for GH2 says the project will bring many benefits to the city.

As Afloat previously reported An Taoiseach Micheál Martin endorsed plans for Galway to become the State's first "hydrogen hub".

 

Published in Galway Harbour

William M Nixon has been writing about sailing in Ireland and internationally for many years, with his work appearing in leading sailing publications on both sides of the Atlantic. He has been a regular sailing columnist for four decades with national newspapers in Dublin, and has had several sailing books published in Ireland, the UK, and the US. An active sailor, he has owned a number of boats ranging from a Mirror dinghy to a Contessa 35 cruiser-racer, and has been directly involved in building and campaigning two offshore racers. His cruising experience ranges from Iceland to Spain as well as the Caribbean and the Mediterranean, and he has raced three times in both the Fastnet and Round Ireland Races, in addition to sailing on two round Ireland records. A member for ten years of the Council of the Irish Yachting Association (now the Irish Sailing Association), he has been writing for, and at times editing, Ireland's national sailing magazine since its earliest version more than forty years ago