Recent hydrogen success story, McPhy Energy, has been chosen by Nottingham University for the mid-term storage of renewable energy in a residential micro-grid under its ‘Creative Energy Homes’ (CEH) project.
McPhy Energy, which was founded in 2008, will be used for the storage of surplus solar and wind energy under a new phase of the CEH project, which targets greater energy-autonomy for the homes via a dedicated micro-grid.
Gavin Walker, Professor of Sustainable Energy at the University of Nottingham, commented, “Having a combination of energy stores will provide a more robust system, with McPhy Energy’s solid hydrogen tanks used primarily for mid-term energy storage, and using batteries for short-term energy requirements.”
Walker added, “Determining the best way of using both hydrogen and fuel cells within a microgrid is an important question that still needs to be addressed.”
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