Tides and batteries for green hydrogen production

Tides and batteries for green hydrogen production

Marine Energy Research & Innovation Center (MERIC)

Authors: Leandro Suárez, Marcos Di Iorio, Nathalie Almonacid

Chile is aiming to produce the lower levelised cost for green hydrogen generation throughout its privilege wind resource for 2023, and three energy storage challenges presents:

  1. Natural wind intermittency
  2. Isolated electrical systems to the national transmission line
  3. They need to count with local and renewable energy sources to bring a higher security to the storage system associated with green hydrogen produced by wind energy.

Preliminary analysis have showed that integrating energy from tidal currents with wind energy and storage system is a solution to this challenges. Breaks in tidal power would not only be 100% predictable, but could impact the cost of the storage system, designed to support unpredictable gaps and intervals without wind generation.

  1. 100% predictable power generation
  2. Complementarity of generation with wind energy of more than 90% of the time
  3. Duration of time intervals without tidal energy generation compatible with energy storage systems.

 

Mon 17:30 - 19:30
Storage, Tidal/In-stream Energy