Fuel Cell Energy Storage System

We design manufacture undertake project development install operate and maintain megawatt scale fuel cell systems serving utilities industrial and large municipal power users with solutions that include both utility scale and on site power generation carbon capture local hydrogen production for transportation and industry and long duration energy storage.

Fuel cell energy storage system.

The round trip efficiency today is lower than other storage technologies. Fuel cells cannot store energy like a battery except as hydrogen but in some applications such as stand alone power plants based on discontinuous sources such as solar or wind power they are combined with electrolyzers and storage systems to form an energy storage system. Fuel cell systems incorporating the collection of the water exhaust its dissociation by electrolysis using an external source of electricity with storage and subsequent use of the hydrogen and oxygen produced form a regenerative system. Novel fuel cells can help store electricity from renewables such as wind farms by converting it into a chemical fuel for long term storage and then changing it back to electricity when needed.

Fcel is a global leader in delivering clean efficient and affordable fuel cell solutions configured for the supply recovery and storage of energy. Such systems for example belonging to the pem group could be independent of established fuel energy infrastructures. The hydrogen can be then stored and eventually re electrified. We provide comprehensive turn key solutions for our customers that include everything from the design and installation of a project to the long term operation and maintenance of the fuel cell system.

This ability to separately optimize each element of an energy storage system can provide significant benefits for many applications. How hydrogen energy storage works electricity can be converted into hydrogen by electrolysis. The fuel cell technologies office fcto is developing onboard automotive hydrogen storage systems that allow for a driving range of more than 300 miles while meeting cost safety and performance requirements. A fuel cell based energy storage system allows separation of power conversion and energy storage functions enabling each function to be individually optimized for performance cost or other installation factors.

Essentially it takes the chemical energy that is stored within whatever energy source you have such as hydrogen gasoline or methane and then through two electrochemical reactions it converts it directly to electricity.