The initial situation
The power supply on the islands of Southeast Asia faces the challenge of creating a reliable infrastructure in geographically inaccessible areas. Many remote islands are heavily dependent on expensive and risk-prone diesel generators, which increases both costs and environmental impact. As a result, access to electricity on many island communities is often limited to just a few hours a day.
The solution approach
The Green-H2Islands project addresses the current inadequate power supply on the islands of Southeast Asia. It aims to demonstrate the feasibility of a 100% renewable, safe and accessible power supply based on solar energy and hydrogen.
The goals and measures
The project has three main objectives:
1) The development of an open-source sizing tool for hydrogen-based energy systems on islands that can be used via a user-friendly web application. This will enable the actors involved to dimension the system with their own data for their location.
2) The construction of a demonstration plant on the Thai island of Koh Jik based on the developed tool. To this end, the existing PV battery-diesel system will be transformed into a PV-hydrogen system in order to achieve a fossil-free power supply.
3) The development of a potential study in which the expansion potential of PV-hydrogen island systems in Southeast Asia is identified and thus the replication potential of the implemented project on the other approx. 25,000 islands in Southeast Asia is shown. The study takes into account both technical and socio-economic factors.
Funding Code
67EXI7501
