SCH Number 2020080018

Project Info

Title

Demand Based Renewable Hydrogen Power-to-Power Project

Description

Under grant Agreement EPC-19-037, the California Energy Commission will provide a grant of $1,275,475 to DasH2energy LLC to establish a renewable hydrogen energy storage system. The project focuses on creating an electricity in/electricity out system by integrating electrolysis, high-pressure hydrogen storage and fuel cell electrical regeneration, with the existing microgrid and control systems at UC Irvine. The hydrogen system will be supplied with electricity from onsite photo-voltaic solar generation and will store the energy as hydrogen to be converted back to electricity to simulate cost savings and long duration resiliency for a municipal water treatment plant in Palmdale. Goals include: The project will validate the hydrogen system's ability to: provide customer energy cost savings and price stability; resiliency during Public Safety Power Shutoff events; load follow; provide baseload renewables; and provide long duration storage of large amounts of power. The data obtained on capital cost, operating cost, performance, and lessons learned will support future commercial deployment. Beneficiaries will include the Palmdale Water District Public Facilities Corporation and its water treatment plant, the District's water ratepayers, UC Irvine, California's investor-owned electric utilities and their customers (i.e., ratepayers); the recipient along with the public at large and the environment.

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