Funding from the U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) will allow research organization GTI and its partners to proceed to the next phase of a project exploring how stored hydrogen can be used for load-following to improve the capacity factor of a natural gas combined cycle power plant.
The project is exploring a system that could demonstrate storage of more than 54 MWh of energy as clean hydrogen produced using natural gas with carbon capture and storage. The hydrogen would be used for load-following at Southern Co. Services’ 122-MW Washington County Cogeneration Facility in McIntosh, Alabama. “Hydrogen storage and discharge rates will be linked to follow daily power demand fluctuations from variable renewable energy to increase the plant’s efficiency and utilization while reducing emissions,” GTI said.
The DOE awarded GTI $800,000, allowing the research organization…
GTI Advancing Next-Generation Hydrogen Energy Storage Technology
