Originally Posted By: SHOZ
One of the problems with windmills is what to do with the power when it's not needed. I think this would work well with some H2 production.
That's when you turn the coal power stations down to minimum load.
I sort of partly agree with you, as a few years ago in Oz, the wholesale prices were going negative overnight. I wrote an internal discussion paper about using the -ve priced electricity (they would pay you to use it), make hydrogen, and pump it into the NG main for our gas turbines for use later.
Hopelessly inefficient, cycle wise, but if you are paying tens of grand an hour to keep the units at min load, you at least get something back
Got laughed at...then last year, India started augmenting their NG with hydrogen, as it's easier to pump it into an existing gas pipeline than run feeders.
One of the problems with windmills is what to do with the power when it's not needed. I think this would work well with some H2 production.
That's when you turn the coal power stations down to minimum load.
I sort of partly agree with you, as a few years ago in Oz, the wholesale prices were going negative overnight. I wrote an internal discussion paper about using the -ve priced electricity (they would pay you to use it), make hydrogen, and pump it into the NG main for our gas turbines for use later.
Hopelessly inefficient, cycle wise, but if you are paying tens of grand an hour to keep the units at min load, you at least get something back
Got laughed at...then last year, India started augmenting their NG with hydrogen, as it's easier to pump it into an existing gas pipeline than run feeders.