October11

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Resources

Follow my ‘tags’ / social bookmarks
Garry’s Diigo Tags is a way to keep track of signals on my radar.
They are links to stories relevant to the following topics:

Fuel Cells
SOFCs (Solid Oxide Fuel Cells) for Natgas
Hydrogen
NatGas
Power to Gas (PtG/P2G);
Microgrid
EVs – mostly BEVs
Blockchain

Within the Diigo search bar you can combine keywords to narrow down:

Hydrogen & PDF https://www.diigo.com/user/garrygolden/hydrogen%20pdf
Blockchain & Energy https://www.diigo.com/user/garrygolden/?query=%23blockchain+energy

Fuel Cells

Types: PEM; SOFC; MFC/CFC; DMFC, et al

Featured in presentation:

Watt
SolidPower BlueGen
Ceres Power (UK)
Powercell
Ballard
FuelCellEnergy

**There are many more companies — Tags on Fuel Cell Companies

There are many scenarios to explore with fuel cell led disruption. The one most important to public power might be a tighter coupling of natural gas + power grid in a not so distant future!

Watt Fuel Cell (Propane Generator) – Generator for RVs
*** Watt is partnering with People Gas (Pennsylvania) for Micro CHP this video shows the ‘energy appliance’ nature of the technology.

Carbonate Fuel Cells

I keep related Exxon-Fuel Cell Energy tags here: https://www.diigo.com/user/garrygolden/exxon

Update documents:

July 13, 2018 Update

Project 2017;

Launch of Idea in 2016

EVs

When we speak about ‘Electric’ Vehicles this refers to the electric motor. There are two likely pathways to delivering electrons: pure electricity via Batteries (BEVs) and via molecule fuels (FCEVs). I believe the most viable ‘electric’ platform integrates batteries and fuel cells. Together.

I believe BEVs are essential and will grow. They have a clear decade lead on FCEVs and are the story of the 2020s. My struggle is seeing growth beyond the early adopter market able to utilize home-charging. I struggle to see recharging as a scalable and sustainable pathway for billions of people around the planet. The coordination and costs of recharging stations is a significant barrier. Hydrogen offers a centralized refueling model similar to today’s gasoline diesel ‘station’.

FCEVs have their own short-comings are not perfect. There are a number of widely cited critiques of FCEVs (vs BEVs) – ‘Inefficiency – Bossel Chart’, et al. Some day I’ll pull together an assumption-by-assumption counter. Fuel cells deliver a broader transportation sector solution — by bringing versatility and scale.

A few select videos from April’s Hannover Fuel Cell Fair 2018

Vairex CEO Ski Milburn’s riff on China’s next steps

Powercell (spin out from Volvo) is a leading fuel cell provider for transportation applications including Nikola Class-8 Truck. At minute 8:02 he sets the stage about China’s volume strategy and possibility of China ‘exporting’ FCEVs to Europe in 2020s.

Hydrogen Infrastructure

Julich Report – 2017
Concludes hydrogen is cheaper than recharging in Germany beyond 10-20 million EVs (Alt Link)

Power to Gas (H2) / Fuel Cell EVs

Power to Gas could enable a gas-centric world:

The Future for Power to Gas Couldn’t be Brighter (Renewable World)

MicroGrid Knowledge: Power to Gas vs Battery – 2018
Southern California Gas’s pipeline system has about 13 tWh of equivalent electricity storage, he noted. Building battery storage facilities with the same amount of storage capacity would cost about $2.6 trillion.
Power-to-gas is currently not considered an eligible storage technology under the CPUC’s energy storage procurement mandate which requires state investor-owned utilities to procure 1.3 GW of storage by 2020

North America’s First MW Power to Gas – 2018
The Enbridge-Hydrogenics 2.5MW facility – designed and built on a 5MW scalable platform – features the Hydrogenics’ next-generation PEM electrolyser technology, which has the highest power density and smallest footprint of any such system in the world.

From Fat Duck to Green Gas – 2017