It’s Hydrogen Week UK, the perfect time to announce that we’re opening the UK’s first ever hydrogen training facility for gas engineers in the first half of 2024, alongside our partners Fife College.
Based in Fife College’s Levenmouth Campus, the new training facility will create a new net zero workforce in Fife by upskilling over 200 existing Gas Safe registered engineers to work with hydrogen gas. We’ve been developing the training courses in partnership with Fife College since June 2022, alongside key stakeholders such as Energy & Utility Skills Partnership and the Institution of Gas Engineers and Managers (IGEM).
Engineers who receive the training will work on SGN’s world-first green hydrogen trial – H100 Fife. H100 Fife will be supplying green hydrogen to several hundred homes in Levenmouth in Fife through a new hydrogen gas network, which is currently being built alongside the existing natural gas network.
Training will be delivered to local Gas Safe registered engineers in Fife by expert trainers with experience in delivering natural gas training with support from industry professionals. The course will enable engineers to safely install, test and commission the hydrogen supply system in people’s homes including newly developed hydrogen appliances (boilers, hobs and meters).
Pioneering hydrogen gas appliances, which work similarly to their natural gas equivalents, will be used in the training facility. These will be provided by leading manufacturers including MeteRSit, Pietro Fiorentini, Baxi, Clean Burner Systems (CBS), BSH and Worcester Bosch.
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