McPhy’s hydrogen storage system will be located at Enel’s research center in Livorno, Italy.
The system has a capacity of two kilograms of solid hydrogen, stored in the form of magnesium hydrides, offering a solution for safe, reversible hydrogen storage, with excellent energy efficiency, the company said.
Enel said it will integrate McPhy’s solution in a full, technology framework, which includes wind and solar technologies, as well as hydrogen production and storage.
The project will be led by a group of researchers from the Enel Research Center of Pisa.
A prototype of the system design was validated through a series of tests at the CEA-LITEN, the French national Laboratory of Innovation for New Energy Technologies and Nanomaterials in Grenoble, France.
The test tank was coupled to an electrolyser and to a fuel cell, successfully demonstrating the storage of renewable energy.
