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THE HYDROGEN EFFECT

As countries across the globe face challenges in the pursuit to achieve net-zero emissions by 2050, hydrogen plays a big part in the solution with two key roles: enabling greater use of renewable energy and decarbonizing the global economy, including CO2‐intensive sectors.

For the past two decades in the U.S., replacement of retiring coal‐fired power generation — alongside an increase in natural gas and renewable power — has been very effective in decarbonizing the power grid. However, in some areas, the retirement of coal has largely run its course. Which is why for the next phase of decarbonization, green hydrogen is playing a larger role as a win-win solution.

Hydrogen in Action

Hydrogen has several industrial uses today. Many experts believe in a future of “green hydrogen society” that uses hydrogen to fuel transportation, generate electricity and even heat homes. In fact, stored renewable power will be supplied to the Los Angeles basin and other power users throughout California and Utah. Hydrogen appears poised to become an essential part of California’s push to reach 100 percent zero-carbon electricity by 2045.

Read about how the western U.S. is using H2

Advanced Clean Energy Storage

In order to store renewable energy for long periods of time, we created our Advanced Clean Energy Storage project in partnership with Magnum Development in Delta, Utah. This facility is the world’s largest renewable energy storage project, and we believe it demonstrates the path to a decarbonized power grid for the Western United States.

It leverages salt dome technology to develop storage caverns, each capable of storing enough green hydrogen to provide 150 GWh of clean energy. More than 40,000 shipping containers of lithium-ion batteries would be needed to produce an equivalent number of megawatt-hours.

Advanced Clean Energy Storage is a solution critical to achieving the next step in decarbonization. It has the capacity to store months of power generated by excess renewable resources, fundamentally changing the way we store energy.

The World’s Largest Renewable Energy Storage Project

Produce Renewable Hydrogen

Produce Green Hydrogen

Advanced Clean Energy Storage will capture excess renewable energy, such as wind and solar, during off-peak hours to inexpensively power electrolyzers that split water molecules and create hydrogen gas.
Store Seasonal Hydrogen

Store Seasonal Hydrogen

The facility’s Gulf Coast style salt dome will store green hydrogen in huge underground caverns to offset the seasonal power shortage. One mile deep and three miles wide, the dome has space for 100 caverns each capable of storing 150 GWh of energy.

Transport Green Hydrogen

This project will serve as a green hydrogen gas and storage hub for the Western United States, delivering green hydrogen for the power generation, industrial and transportation sectors.
Generate Power from Renewable Hydrogen

Generate Power from Green Hydrogen

Stored green hydrogen will cleanly power Mitsubishi Power gas turbines to offset supply and demand imbalances with 100% carbon-free power. The Advanced Clean Energy Storage project’s central Utah location can seamlessly integrate with the western power grid and interstate gas transmission system.

Learn more about Advanced Clean Energy Storage

Download a detailed infographic depicting how the Advanced Clean Energy Storage project will produce green hydrogen from excess renewable energy.

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