by Pete Danko, Jan 26th, 2012
We ought to know, in a few brief years, either regulating breeze and solar to emanate hydrogen is a viable clean-energy storage technique. Projects keep popping adult all over a place – a latest only this month in Corsica – providing copiousness of opportunities to accumulate data, inspect a numbers, total a costs and see what’s what.
Details on a Corsica plan are not plentiful. The press release put out by a French firm Areva is full of holes and a interpretation to English is a tiny rough. But this pivotal judgment says a project, during a University of Corsica site in Vignola, consists of a “560 kWc (kilowatt capacity) photovoltaic appetite plant … connected to an innovative appetite storage complement grown by Areva, done of an electrolyzer, hydrogen and oxygen reserves, and a fuel cell.”
image around Areva
Technically speaking, that’s all we know. Scouring a Areva website reveals tiny some-more than deceptive background. But this “MYRTE platform” of Areva’s certain sounds a lot like a projects we’ve seen in Germany – both in Herten and Prenzlau – as good as a some-more recently announced project on Long Island, N.Y. Those projects all engage regulating breeze appetite as a appetite source, instead of solar, though a simple thought is a same: a purify source of appetite is used to run an electrolysis section to produce hydrogen gas from water. The hydrogen can afterwards be used in any series of ways, including in a fuel cell, as a appetite source.
Areva pronounced that a Corsica plan – clearly small, during 560 kW – “aims to denote a feasibility of a solar appetite storage resolution regulating hydrogen technologies to lessen a fluctuations of solar appetite generation, and minister to securing Corsica’s appetite grid.”
And if it works out well? Areva pronounced it is fervent to pull a record further.
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