Using Hydrogen for Long Duration Energy Storage

Variable renewable energy is increasing on the grid, creating potential challenges for grid operators to maintain system reliability. Energy storage is providing important services to support the grid, yet are only able to meet grid requirements of six hours in duration or less. The increasing supply of intermittent wind and solar power is leading to increasing curtailment, with wind and solar supplying too much energy at certain times, while not providing enough energy at other times. This mismatch between VRE supply and demand is driving demand for long duration storage solutions, including pumped hydro, compressed air energy storage, large scale flow batteries, and large-scale underground hydrogen storage.

Hydrogen is considered one of the technologies that will be used to enable significant grid decarbonization, by providing long duration energy storage. This Hydrogen Session provides an overview of hydrogen as a long duration storage solution. This webinar presents the technical configurations for long duration hydrogen storage, reviews specific projects already in operation and under development, identifies the technical potential for this approach to storage, and compares hydrogen to other long duration storage solutions. Hydrogen is being considered for storage durations from days to months, including seasonal energy storage.

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