GKN Hydrogen & SoCalGas will work with the US Department of Energy’s National Renewable Energy Laboratory to highlight the technologies needed to reach carbon neutrality and accelerate clean fuel initiatives. The companies will collaborate on an innovative green hydrogen storage solution. GKN Hydrogen’s HY2MEGA can enable safe, long duration clean energy storage without the need for compression. At scale, this combined technology could provide resilient power in case of widespread outages.Two HY2MEGA hydrogen storage subsystems will connect to an electrolyzer and fuel cell at the ARIES facility on NREL’s Flatirons Campus near Boulder, Colorado. The electrolyzer will use renewable sources and produce green hydrogen to be stored in the HY2MEGA. The HY2MEGA stores the hydrogen in a solid state, under low pressure in a compact footprint. According to GKN Hydrogen, it is one of the safest ways to store hydrogen. The fuel cell will then convert the green hydrogen to produce renewable electricity. The two HY2MEGA’s will add an additional 500 kgs of hydrogen storage on site. The three-year project is set to launch at the end of this year. The US Department of Energy provided USD 1.7 million in funding to deploy GKN Hydrogen’s technology. SoCalGas provided USD 400,000 of Research, Development, and Demonstration funding to the project. We’ll assist and identify potential commercial use cases.
GKN Hydrogen & SoCalGas will work with the US Department of Energy’s National Renewable Energy Laboratory to highlight the technologies needed to reach carbon neutrality and accelerate clean fuel initiatives. The companies will collaborate on an innovative green hydrogen storage solution. GKN Hydrogen’s HY2MEGA can enable safe, long duration clean energy storage without the need for compression. At scale, this combined technology could provide resilient power in case of widespread outages.Two HY2MEGA hydrogen storage subsystems will connect to an electrolyzer and fuel cell at the ARIES facility on NREL’s Flatirons Campus near Boulder, Colorado. The electrolyzer will use renewable sources and produce green hydrogen to be stored in the HY2MEGA. The HY2MEGA stores the hydrogen in a solid state, under low pressure in a compact footprint. According to GKN Hydrogen, it is one of the safest ways to store hydrogen. The fuel cell will then convert the green hydrogen to produce renewable electricity. The two HY2MEGA’s will add an additional 500 kgs of hydrogen storage on site. The three-year project is set to launch at the end of this year. The US Department of Energy provided USD 1.7 million in funding to deploy GKN Hydrogen’s technology. SoCalGas provided USD 400,000 of Research, Development, and Demonstration funding to the project. We’ll assist and identify potential commercial use cases.
