Hydrogen Microgrid Venture Operational Utilizing GKN Hydrogen’s Steel Hydride Hydrogen Storage

The California Power Fee (CEC), Know-how & Funding Options LLC (TIS) and Cleantech San Diego member GKN Hydrogen introduced that GKN Hydrogen’s HY2MEDI vitality storage system (ESS) is operational and has been built-in into the Circle Inexperienced Technical Park close to Adelanto on the former Meadowbrook Dairy.

GKN Hydrogen’s HY2MEDI vitality storage system makes use of metallic hydride hydrogen storage to displace a propane generator and utilizing off grid photo voltaic electrical energy will energy the location to assist the renewable vitality expertise improvement actions. The set up will obtain $1.77 million {dollars} of funding from The California Power Fee’s Electrical Program Funding Cost (EPIC) program that invests in scientific and technological analysis to speed up the transformation of the electrical energy sector to fulfill the state’s vitality and local weather targets.

The efficiency of the HY2MEDI set up will probably be evaluated over a variety of environmental and operational circumstances on the excessive desert web site close to dry lakebed Lake El Mirage. The HY2MEDI operates autonomously to manage the microgrid, shops out there photo voltaic electrical energy and delivers electrical energy as wanted to assist the expertise improvement actions on the Technical Park.

“This challenge brings collectively a renewable microgrid at a web site that’s being repurposed, a regional challenge and biogas expertise developer and a clear vitality expertise developer to implement options that may assist decarbonize the facility grid” stated Janice Lin, the Founder and President of the Inexperienced Hydrogen Coalition. “This California Power Fee (CEC) funded challenge demonstrates the applied sciences that may allow microgrids to function autonomously, be used to stability the long run electrical energy grid, and assist decarbonize our financial system.”

“This HY2MEDI challenge helps us show the potential in repurposing the previous Meadowbrook Dairy as a renewable expertise improvement web site” stated Kevin Sutton, CEO and proprietor of Circle Inexperienced, Inc., the challenge developer of a brand new composting and inexperienced gasoline manufacturing facility. “The Circle Inexperienced Technical Park will assist develop and show the applied sciences that may allow microgrids to function autonomously, be used to stability the long run electrical energy grid, and assist decarbonize our financial system.”

Paul Cook dinner, First District Supervisor, San Bernardino Nation acknowledged “The HY2MEDI vitality storage system will enable the storage and on-demand supply of unpolluted vitality, whatever the climate or time of day. I’m proud to see San Bernardino County companies proceed to paved the way in producing and storing clear renewable vitality.”

Moh Ibrahim, Developer at Know-how & Funding Options LLC (TIS) stated, “We’re honored to be the recipient of a CEC EPIC Award for this challenge to validate and show an vitality storage system (ESS) utilizing metallic hydride hydrogen storage. This challenge will show the containerized HY2MEDI vitality storage system can autonomously management microgrids and retailer out there photo voltaic electrical energy to ship electrical energy when wanted and upon demand to assist the renewable expertise improvement at this web site.”

“This Mojave Desert location supplies us the chance to validate the efficiency of GKN Hydrogen’s HY2MEDI vitality storage system when uncovered to environmental extremes together with scorching summer season temperatures,” stated Gottfried Rier, Chief Know-how Officer at GKN Hydrogen. “The absolutely containerized and straightforward to deploy HY2MEDI demonstrates its flexibility to generate and retailer hydrogen for lengthy period vitality storage purposes and helps to buffer vitality from intermittent renewables, corresponding to photo voltaic, to allow microgrids to function dependable and resiliently whereas using renewable electrical energy.”

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