the future of electricity storage
Green Hydrogen
A fuel cell supported microgrid can only be fully sustainable when the hydrogen is produced in a renewable way. So called “green hydrogen” is made by using clean electricity from renewable energy sources such as solar and wind for a technology
called “electrolysis”. In this process, electricity is used to split the hydrogen molecule from the oxygen molecule in plain water (H2O).
Today, most hydrogen is produced from fossil fuels such as natural gas and coal. This process is not sustainable and contributes to CO2 emissions. A fuel cell turns hydrogen into electricity.
For a long time, the conventional argument has been that Green Hydrogen is too expensive. That is rapidly changing. The price of renewable energy has fallen dramatically in recent years.
In many places in the world, solar power is now the cheapest source of energy. Cheaper renewable energy dramatically reduces the cost of electrolysis. At the same time, improved electrolyzer technologies are further decreasing the cost of converting water into hydrogen.
Green Hydrogen projects are currently being built all over the world. These projects are predicted to drive costs down even further.
Indeed, the journey of Green Hydrogen resembles the story of solar power. Not so long ago, most experts agreed that solar energy would never be commercially viable. Yet this conventional view changed much faster than most people dared to believe even ten years ago.
Green Hydrogen is the future of electricity storage.
