Hybrid Energy AS, with its daughter company Hystorsys AS, has been awarded the contract for the installation of the world´s largest Hydrogen storage facility based on Metal Hydride at Vestsiden Junior Highschool in Kongsberg.
According to Yngve Solvang CEO of Hybrid Energy: “This ground-breaking technology used on such a large scale will be the first of its kind. This is a major milestone in Hydrogen Storage in view of replacing oil and gas and will open a large market potential.”
We are pleased to announce that Kongsberg Kommune has ordered a Hydrogen Energy Container for its Junior Highschool. The excess energy produced by the solar panels during summer will be stored as hydrogen, to be consumed during winter. The process(fig.1) includes 3 steps: 1- an electrolyzer generating hydrogen, 2- storage of hydrogen, 3 – fuel cell to re-generate electricity.
Fig.1 System overview
Storage is the weakest link of the hydrogen value chain: hydrogen is very voluminous => 1kg needs 11m3 equivalent to 1 small truck. Therefore, it needs to be either compressed or cool down to very low temperature: both those processes are very energy consuming and complex.
Our hydrogen storage solution is unique: it is based on metal hydride which allow a much higher energy density than lithium batteries.
This storage solution is safe as the pressure will not exceed 30 bar (fig.2). This is the safest method in a school environment.
Fig.2 Hybrid Energy/Hystorsys storage
1 kg of Hydrogen, safely stored with metal hydride in a smaller volume(fig.2), compared to traditional compressed H2 storage solution (fig.3)
Fig.3 Traditional storage
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