Climate Changed
Big Energy Backs Hydrogen Power Storage
- Projects seek to hold electricity for weeks or months
- Technology remains expensive, may take decades to develop
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The secret to switching the global energy system entirely to renewables may lay in the universe’s most abundant substance.
Hydrogen has drawn backing from big energy companies from Royal Dutch Shell Plc to Uniper SE in addition to carmakers BMW AG and Audi AG. They’re supporting research into how the element can be used to store energy for weeks or even months beyond what lithium-ion batteries can manage.