Majanne, Yrjö (Tampere University), Vilhonen, Venla (Tampere University), Repo, Sami (Tampere University of Technology), Vilkko, Matti Kalervo (Tampere University)

Impacts of EU Regulation on Green Hydrogen Production and Storage Capacity Design and Operation

Scheduled for presentation during the Regular Session "Standard and economical aspect in power systems" (FriS2T1), Friday, July 12, 2024, 12:10−12:30, Salle des conférences

12th IFAC Symposium on Control of Power & Energy Systems, July 10-12, 2024, Rabat, Morocco

This information is tentative and subject to change. Compiled on January 2, 2025

Abstract

In European Union green hydrogen production is regulated to guarantee that transition to green energy will really have positive effect on the mitigation of the climate change, and that the integration of hydrogen economy to existing energy system will be as smooth as possible. However, these regulations complicate the optimal design and operation of the hydrogen production. Requirement about one-hour temporal correlation between contracted variable renewable electricity production and green hydrogen production forces to invest in overcapacity of electrolyzers and high-capacity hydrogen storages to buffer variable hydrogen production to smooth supply flow to hydrogen end use processes. This paper explains these issues with a demonstrative example how different design parameters result to the operation performance of the hydrogen production process.