Salt Cavern Appraisal for Hydrogen Power Generation Systems
This project examined the potential for storing hydrogen and hydrogen gas mixtures underground in salt caverns, which could then be used for power generation in gas turbines when the demand for electricity is high
- The ETI invested £170,000 in the six month project
- The project built on earlier ETI work which showed that storing hydrogen in salt caverns could provide a significant contribution to decarbonising the UK’s future electricity grid
- The project identified and examined representative salt caverns in Cheshire, Teesside and East Yorkshire that could store hydrogen to be used in power generation.
The ETI invested £170,000 in the six month project, which followed on from a report it published in the previous year, highlighting the potential role hydrogen storage could play in a future clean, responsive power system.
This ETI project identified and examined representative salt caverns in Cheshire, Teesside and East Yorkshire that could store hydrogen to be used in power generation. Atkins worked closely with the UK’s leading cavern storage operators, including Storengy, SSE Gas Storage and SABIC, who provided critical data and technical expertise to assist in the development of hydrogen storage models for each of the selected caverns.
