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Originally Posted by opendoor
I don't know, I've read a few articles on it and nothing I've seen points to it being a case where they're specifically planning on using excess renewable generation to produce hydrogen.
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That's the only use case that currently exists for pairing renewable generation and electrolyzers.
The economics aren't there for using it to purely produce green hydrogen.
Iberdrola out of Spain is on the leading edge of these systems. I fully expect renewable companies to jump all over hydrogen as it offers them a form of arbitrage they currently don't have access to as they can't set an offer price for electricity.
Most, if not all, of the renewable generation projects in Alberta have a battery storage component now. That's new in the past two years. I wouldn't be surprised to see them including some form of hydrogen storage/generator in the near term (<5 years).