Plans in for construction of an underground hydrogen storage plant in Utah

A 300 GWh underground hydrogen storage plant in Utah, US, is about to start construction. The project is developed by Mitsubishi Power Americas and Magnum Development. Recently Department of Energy’s (DOE) Loan Programs Office awarded a US$ 504.4M loan guarantee for the development of the project. Advanced Clean Energy Storage I, LLC is the loan recipient.The underground hydrogen storage plant in Utah will include two 150 GWh-capable caverns for storing hydrogen in two enormous salt caverns. The hydrogen will be produced by Intermountain Power Agency’s IPP Renewed Project. The latter is a nearby 840 MW hydrogen-capable gas turbine combined cycle power plant.The plant will initially run on a blend of 30% green hydrogen and 70% natural gas starting in 2025. This is according to a statement from Aces Delta. Furthermore, the statement noted that the facility will slowly expand to…

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