Hexagon Purus is supplying hydrogen storage systems to the energy service provider HPS Home Power Solutions. The latter intends to integrate them into a year-round electricity storage system for buildings.
The building sector is responsible for almost 40 percent of annual CO2 emissions worldwide. Hydrogen can contribute to reducing emissions in conjunction with the storage of electricity generated from renewable sources. The cooperation partners Hexagon Purus and HPS Home power Solutions have their sights set on this approach.
Hexagon Purus, manufacturer of zero-emission mobility and hydrogen infrastructure solutions, will supply HPS, based in Berlin, with high-pressure hydrogen containers worth 3.8 million euros. According to a joint press release, HPS intends to install them in its "Picea" product. This is the "world's first year-round electricity storage system", as HPS emphasizes.
The solar hydrogen system consists of a short-term and long-term storage unit: a battery storage unit stores the electricity from the company's own PV roof system during the day and makes it usable in the evening. With the help of an electrolyzer, surplus electricity is to be used to produce hydrogen in the summer months. The hydrogen is stored in high-pressure tanks and will be used to produce electricity and heat in the winter months. "In this way, buildings can be supplied with solar energy from their own roof all year round," announces HPS.
"Our hydrogen bundles are flexible, scalable and suitable for a wide range of applications, such as in this example for storing green hydrogen to supply buildings with energy," assures Matthias Kötter, Managing Director of the Hexagon Purus site in the municipality of Weeze (North Rhine-Westphalia).
Hexagon Purus plans to start delivering the hydrogen storage systems to HPS from the second quarter of 2024.
Author: Davina Spohn
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