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namibj 5 days ago

Some tech has notably separate $/kW and $/kWh pricing.

Such as for example the awfully-often mentioned seasonal Europe setup of green summer hydrogen injected into former methane caverns, to be fed to gas turbines in winter.

Though I guess it's hard to measure $/kWh due to usage of natural formations.

Then there's the up-and-coming opportunity for green iron refining (ore to metal), which becomes financially practical when fed with curtailed summer surplus from integrated PV/battery deployments who's entire AC and grid side is undersized vs. PV generation capacity, using day/night shifting with local storage and peak shaving into iron electrolyzers (which would use some of the day/night shifting battery's capacity to increase over-the-year duty cycle of the iron electrolyzers).

For reference we're looking at capex for the electrolyzers (assuming 30% duty cycle average over a year, and zero discount rate over 20 years expected lifespan) around 0.1$/kg iron (metal) and electricity usage around 3 kWh/kg iron (metal).