The expansion of renewable power generation plants such as photovoltaic and wind power plants is leading to a shift away from a centralized energy supply and towards a more decentralized one that is oriented towards individual consumption. This requires both short-term and long-term storage.
Using photovoltaic and wind power for decentralized self-consumption is significantly cheaper today than buying electricity from the grid. In addition, electricity generation costs and grid operator feed-in tariffs have become so low that the storage and use of surplus renewable electricity in hydrogen plants will be a major building block in the energy transition.
As part of a decentralized energy supply, EFOY Hydrogen Fuel Cells increase the rate of self-consumption and reduce the carbon footprint by eliminating the need to purchase additional energy produced by the energy mix.
The EFOY Hydrogen Fuel Cell as part of a decentralized energy system with local hydrogen tanks, obtained from electrolysis. In sunny and/or windy periods, hydrogen is produced locally from surplus energy and is stored as gaseous hydrogen. The fuel cells convert the green hydrogen into electrical energy as needed, increasing the efficiency of a photovoltaic or wind power plant far beyond the usual day/night cycles that are realized with pure battery storage. For example, renewable electricity from the summer can be stored as a green energy reserve and consumed in the winter.
“The EFOY H₂Cabinet is the ideal secondary power supply for our fully autonomous energy concept and accesses our stored hydrogen fully automatically in the event of a power failure.”
Martin Blauensteiner, Managing Director SAN Venture and Project Manager
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With the EFOY H₂Cabinet and EFOY H₂PowerPack X50, SFC offers complete energy solutions that are ideally suited for use in combination with electrolysis systems for the local production and storage of green hydrogen.
They also serve as a back-up power supply to secure critical consumers in the event of a power failure. This avoids the high costs that can arise from failures, for example, of the IT infrastructure or production machines.
