by admin | Mar 27, 2021 | Transportation and Storage
The US has about 1,600 miles of hydrogen pipeline today, mostly along the Gulf Coast to service oil refiner hydrogen demand. Low concentrations of hydrogen can be mixed in the existing natural gas pipeline system for transport, and existing gas pipelines may be able...
by admin | Mar 27, 2021 | Transportation and Storage
The Northwest is blessed with comparatively large amounts of energy storage in the form of water in reservoirs behind dams in the Columbia River drainage basin. That storage is leveraged to good purpose today to balance the variability of wind and solar on the system,...
by admin | Mar 27, 2021 | Transportation and Storage
Some of the needs for energy storage may best be met with higher efficient battery and other conventional storage technologies (pumped hydro, compressed air, etc.). However, the cost of battery energy storage is orders of magnitude higher than the cost of creating and...
by admin | Mar 27, 2021 | Transportation and Storage
Some of the energy needed to compress or liquefy hydrogen can be recovered, but at additional capital...
by admin | Mar 27, 2021 | Transportation and Storage
This is a possibility, especially for high pressure storage. However, a significant loss of energy occurs during compression in the form of heat that would have to be recoverable for efficient recovery of compression...
by admin | Mar 27, 2021 | Transportation and Storage
Costs on an energy storage capacity basis ($/kWh) vary widely depending on the storage technology, quantity to be stored and whether it is mobile (e.g., in cars, ships, or aircraft) or stationary applications. For example, the incremental cost of storage at an...
