North America’s first power-to-gas energy storage facility using hydrogen is now operational.

Owned and operated under a joint venture between hydrogen technology specialists Hydrogenics Corporation and Enbridge Gas Distribution, the Markham Energy Storage Facility provides regulation services under contract to the Independent Electricity System Operator of Ontario, Canada.

Regulation service is an important reliability function that corrects for short-term changes in electricity use and helps compensate for real-time supply and demand imbalances. The Enbridge-Hydrogenics 2.5 MW facility – designed and built on a 5 MW scalable platform – features the company’s next-generation polymer electrolyte membrane electrolyzer technology, which has the highest power density and smallest footprint of any such system in the world.

The hydrogen produced can also be used for a number of purposes such as fueling cars and trains. It can also be blended into the natural gas system to offset traditional natural gas and supply building heating, heavy duty transportation fuels and dispatchable power generation markets. https://insights.globalspec.com/arti...o-gas-facility



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