This summer, Western Australian (WA) state-owned power firm Horizon Power released a knowledge-sharing report from its Denham Hydrogen Demonstration Project – a hydrogen microgrid located in the town of Denham, some 800km north of Perth.
Microgrids, by nature, are self-sufficient, localised energy systems, which could offer a robust energy supply for those affected by increasingly intermittent and politicised energy grids. Hydrogen can be used in these microgrid systems as a storage medium. While batteries have their use cases, long-term storage requires an alternative solution.
Hydrogen’s role in microgrids has been steadily building, although often overshadowed by the giga-scale production project announcements and policy debates. From military and industrial uses to community power and large-scale energy storage, projects across the world are trying to showcase how the technologies could play a role in securing sustainability and resilience.
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