Hybrid Battery Hydrogen Systems Proposed by Startup

A Swiss startup, Plan B Net Zero (founded 2023), has created a concept for BESS (battery energy storage systems) and stored hydrogen as a hybrid solution for grid balancing ("complementary building blocks"). 

This approach was outlined in the DACH Hydrogen symposium in Wiener Neustadt.

PBNZ said BESS could respond "within milliseconds" to imbalances, whereas hydrogen could inject energy (through fuel cells and turbines) over longer durations. 

Tjark Connor, battery systems expert at the startup, commented: "Our goal is an energy system that stabilises itself, digital, decentralized and decarbonized".

UK Unveils Hydrogen Investment Plan (#2 in TP Plan)

The UK government has unveiled its plan for hydrogen investment to 2030. Further details in the policy papers. Low carbon hydrogen is a key part of the UK's strategy to go net-zero by 2050. It forms part of the government's Ten Point Plan for a "green industrial revolution" announced in November 2020 aimed at creating 250,000 jobs. Hydrogen sits at priority number two with an aim to generate 5GW from low carbon hydrogen by 2030 just below offshore wind, where the aim is to quadruple the UK's current production to 40GW by 2030. Number 3 is nuclear - advancing nuclear as a clean energy source.