Ultra-high Efficiency, Lower-Cost, Green Electrolytic H2 for Microgrids in California
This project will test and validate laboratory scale baseline and Advanced Electrolyzer System (AES) hydrogen system performance. This project will develop conceptual system designs for a commercial scale AES system. The data obtained on cost
T2M Global LLC
Recipient
Sun Valley, CA
Recipient Location
Senate District
39th
Assembly District
$963,054
Amount Spent
Completed
Project Status
Project Result
In 2024, the team closed out the project after completing all deliverables. This includes successful laboratory testing of the Advanced Electrolyzer System (AES), designing a 100-kW scalable module and conducting outreach to early adopters and other stakeholders in industry, academia and regulatory bodies. The results were summarized in the Final Project Report, which was published by CEC in 2024.
View Final ReportThe Issue
Achieving California's energy goals will require a diversified portfolio of energy storage technologies. Currently, the energy storage market is dominated by lithium-ion energy storage technologies. The market would benefit from safe alternatives, particularly ones that operate in longer duration. California is in need of longer duration energy storage because the state will continue to experience long duration outages such as with wildfires. Technology demonstrations are needed to validate the multi-sector benefits that hydrogen energy technologies can provide.
Project Innovation
Conventional electrolysis produces hydrogen from purified water and electricity. The hydrogen technology in this project can generate hydrogen in a conventional electrolysis configuration. The technology can also be configured in an Advanced Electrolyzer System (AES) configuration to recover dilute hydrogen from waste streams such as gasified biomass. Depending on the input waste stream, the AES may be configured to produce water as a byproduct (rather than requiring purified water as an input). This project tested and validated a laboratory scale baseline system and one with an AES to assess performance. This project developed conceptual system designs for a commercial scale AES system. The data obtained on cost, performance, and lessons learned supports commercial deployment. This project developed an advanced energy storage technology with the potential to deliver benefits for the utility grid and IOU ratepayers and support achieving California's energy goals.
Project Benefits
This project tested and validated a laboratory scale AES. The AES hydrogen energy storage technology has the potential to integrate renewable electrical generation and capture value from waste streams such as gasified biomass, enabling the storage of large amounts of energy for providing long duration energy services to the grid.
Affordability
The AES hydrogen energy storage technology has the potential to improve the net electrical efficiency of hydrogen production, lowering the cost of the stored energy and hence providing value to customers by taking greater advantage of renewable generation.
Environmental Sustainability
The AES hydrogen energy storage technology has the potential to recover dilute hydrogen from waste streams such as gasified biomass - creating value from previously wasted resources. The Advanced Electrolyzer System (AES) hydrogen energy storage technology may be configured to generate water from waste streams (rather than requiring purified water as an input).
Key Project Members
Pinakin Patel
Subrecipients
West Biofuels, LLC
Quadrogen, Inc.
Bhupatrai R. Mehta
Longitude 122 West, Inc
California Hydrogen Business Council
BEROKOFF ENERGY SOLUTIONS, INC.
SAFCell, Inc.
Timothy Lipman
Match Partners
T2M Global LLC
SAFCell, Inc.
