GKN Hydrogen, SoCalGas, and NREL Collaborate on Modern Hydrogen Storage Resolution
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On June 29, 2022, Cleantech San Diego member firm GKN Hydrogen and Southern California Fuel Co. (SoCalGas) introduced the businesses will work with the U.S. Division of Power’s (DOE’s) Nationwide Renewable Power Laboratory (NREL) on an progressive inexperienced hydrogen storage resolution. GKN Hydrogen’s HY2MEGA can allow secure, lengthy length clear vitality storage with out the necessity for compression. At scale, this mixed know-how might present resilient energy in case of widespread outages. It additionally highlights the applied sciences wanted to succeed in carbon neutrality and speed up clear gas initiatives.
Two HY2MEGA hydrogen storage subsystems will hook up with an electrolyzer and gas cell on the ARIES facility on NREL’s Flatirons Campus close to Boulder, Colorado. The electrolyzer will use renewable sources and produce inexperienced hydrogen to be saved within the HY2MEGA. The HY2MEGA shops the hydrogen in a stable state (steel hydrides), beneath low stress in a compact footprint. Based on GKN Hydrogen, its one of many most secure methods to retailer hydrogen. The gas cell will then convert the inexperienced hydrogen to supply renewable electrical energy. The 2 HY2MEGA’s will add a further 500 kgs of hydrogen storage on web site. The three-year venture is about to launch on the finish of this yr.
“SoCalGas will leverage the large-scale hydrogen storage capabilities of GKN Hydrogen’s HY2MEGA from this venture to assist speed up the commercialization and deployment of inexperienced hydrogen tasks,” stated Neil Navin, vice chairman of fresh vitality improvements at SoCalGas. “Finally, inexperienced hydrogen era and storage will assist decarbonize the vitality system whereas assuring stability of {the electrical} grid to allow even greater penetrations of renewable sources of electrical energy.”
“This venture is precisely what the ARIES platform was designed for: reveal the advantages of a brand new know-how that effectively shops vitality produced from renewable electrical energy,” stated Katherine Hurst, group supervisor and analysis scientist at NREL. “It brings collectively a nationwide laboratory, a clear vitality know-how developer, and a big utility to work on options that assist decarbonize the ability grid. We’re trying ahead to working with GKN Hydrogen and SoCalGas to advance this know-how.”
“Collaborations on inexperienced hydrogen tasks are important as we deal with this local weather emergency,” stated Frank Wolak, President and CEO of the Gasoline Cell and Hydrogen Power Affiliation (FCHEA). “This venture will reveal how hydrogen storage may help cut back carbon emissions and is an progressive step in the direction of a clear future for everybody.”
Bruno Biasiotta, Chief Govt Officer at GKN Hydrogen stated, “We’re actually honored to be working with nice organizations like NREL and SoCalGas to validate and reveal inexperienced hydrogen as a megawatt scale vitality supply. To speed up the vitality transition hydrogen can’t simply be a part of the dialogue, it should be a part of the answer. This venture will reveal that enormous scale inexperienced hydrogen storage with HY2MEGA can be utilized to assist decarbonize and speed up the shift to cleaner fuels.”
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