Hydrogen as energy storage for wind energy

Abstract

Nowadays, problems associated with greenhouse gases emission and fuel ending, makes that renewable energy sources and hydrogen technology have high interest for governments and researchers, and become an option for an environmentaly sustainable world. Renewable energy sources, like solar energy and wind energy, have been used for the last three decades to produce electricity. Researchers and companies have improved the efficiency of this kind of systems, but they have a problem due to energy source temporality that does a fluctuation in systems power output. This fluctuation makes sometimes energy demand is higher than energy produced by the system and vice versa. Hydrogen Technology, actuating as energy storage, may solve this problem. In this paper, a wind-hydrogen installation will be described. Also, its behavior in relation to different electric demand will be analysed.