Welcome to WAâs new gold rush
The fervour for green hydrogen is yet to develop commercial scale or viability but the rush by business is on â nowhere more so than in Western Australia.
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At ATCOâs operations centre surrounded by bushland about 20 kilometres from the Perth CBD, some modest-sized buildings and a couple of white metal units are to the right of the front gate. A small house made up of two converted dongas â complete with grass front yard â is to the left.
Appearances really are deceiving. The areaâs official title is ATCOâs Clean Energy Innovation Hub, opened in 2019. It is key to the Canadian-owned companyâs hopes of becoming a major player in Australiaâs green energy future focused on hydrogen.
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Form Energy sprang out of JCESR research on the air-breathing sulfur battery. (Credit: Image courtesy of JCESR.)
A new era of energy provided by renewables may be close at hand, thanks to research begun at the Joint Center for Energy Storage Research (JCESR), a U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) Energy Innovation Hub led by DOE s Argonne National Laboratory, and continued at spinoff company Form Energy.
The challenge JCESR addressed is long duration storage stabilizing a renewable grid against several consecutive days of calm or overcast days when wind and solar generation is absent or severely limited. Today s lithium-ion batteries can discharge at full power for 4-6 hours, enough to stabilize against most intra-day variations due to passing clouds or fluctuating winds, or to extend solar electricity a few hours past sunset to serve the evening demand peak. A full day or consecutive days of windless or overcast weather is stabilized by natural gas p