Power company Enel Group (ENEL.MI) has ordered a solid-hydrogen energy storage system to integrate with wind and solar technologies.
McPhy Energy, which will build the system, announced the contract.
The system will have a capacity of 2 kilograms of solid hydrogen, stored in the form of magnesium hydrides (which do not require compression). McPhy says the technology is a safe, reversible method for hydrogen/energy storage.
A prototype of the system design was validated through a series of tests at the CEA-LITEN (the French national Laboratory of Innovation for New Energy Technologies and Nanomaterials in Grenoble, France).
According to McPhy, Enel will integrate the system in a full technology framework, which includes wind and solar technologies, as well as hydrogen production and storage. McPhy’s storage system will be located at Enel’s research center in Livorno. The project will be led by a group of researchers from the Enel Research Center of Pisa.
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