Project description
Advancing the adoption of H2 storage in Europe
Hydrogen holds promise as a renewable source for decarbonizing the European industry and mobility sectors. However, the lack of European infrastructure and large-scale hydrogen (H2) storage presents obstacles to its economic and technical feasibility for widespread adoption. The EU-funded FrHyGe project seeks to address this challenge by demonstrating and validating the use of natural gas commercial storage sites for H2 injection and withdrawal. Additionally, the project will explore and demonstrate the feasibility of cavern conversion for H2 storage, thereby expediting the accumulation of necessary experience and data. The project aims to lay the groundwork for cost-efficient and sizeable H2 storage potential in the EU.
Objective
If the solution for integration of intermittent renewable sources to decarbonate the industry and mobility is hydrogen, for example with European Hydrogen Backbone initiative, large-scale storage of H2 technical feasibility and economic viability is still hampering wide EU market uptake.
FrHyGe main goal is to demonstrate and qualify in industrial environment in France the injection and withdrawal of H2 in a current natural gas commercial storage site. But FrHyGe will also deliver the conversion process and up-scale strategies to foster EU replication of H2 storage in caverns, starting with an ongoing project in Germany to accelerate know-how transfer and economic viability.
FrHyGe objectives are:
• To develop and implement two conversion processes from natural gas or brine cavern to hydrogen storage
• To demonstrate H2 storage and cyclability in a 3000 tons potential cavern with 100 cycles from 1h to 1 week
• To study the local hydrogen value chain and the techno-economic impacts on local actors and to upscale and deploy H2 storage along European Hydrogen Backbone
• To assess the risks and environmental impacts of H2 cyclic storage in salt caverns and provide guidelines for safety, regulation and normative adaptations in Europe
FrHyGe will open a path towards a potential of commercial 38 ktons of H2 storage in several EU countries as soon as 2030, and up to 1.5 Mtons in 2050 through conversion and creation of caverns, leading to a CAPEX below 10 €/Kg of H2 stored.
To succeed, FrHyGe gathers EU leading H2 industries and research centres, led by worldwide underground storage actor Storengy, willing to make happen large-scale and multi-site H2 storage in caverns.
Fields of science
Programme(s)
- HORIZON.2.5 - Climate, Energy and Mobility Main Programme
Funding Scheme
HORIZON-JU-IA - HORIZON JU Innovation ActionsCoordinator
92270 Bois Colombes
France
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Participants (17)
92270 Bois Colombes
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92569 Rueil-Malmaison
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75009 Paris
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1000 Bruxelles / Brussel
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The organization defined itself as SME (small and medium-sized enterprise) at the time the Grant Agreement was signed.
60550 Verneuil En Halatte
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13547 Aix En Provence Cedex 4
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10829 BERLIN
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30659 Hannover
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75272 Paris
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75272 Paris
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92500 Rueil Malmaison
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92500 Rueil Malmaison
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28005 Madrid
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13298 MARSEILLE CEDEX 20
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44139 Dortmund
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92270 BOIS-COLOMBES
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92569 RUEIL MALMAISON
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20539 Hamburg
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