Senior Scientist/Consultant Hydrogen Technologies | Program Manager Offshore Hydrogen | Lecturer
So it seems that the Mexican government has been exploring the use of H2 in e.g., CCGTs and concluded it is not attractive to them at this moment of time. The reasons given are 1) that current GTs do not admit H2 blends, and 2) that using H2 for electricity leads to energy losses due to efficiency. Good that the government is looking into it but at the same time the arguments given may indicate that they are not being thoroughly advised, because they make allusion to H2 blends while not addressing 100% H2-fired GTs (which can be retrofitted, by the way), and the value of H2 is to store energy, which will of course cost energy to release but alas, that is the cost of storing energy. Storing energy using energy carriers has never been done at large scales in history, so we need to change our current thinking in order to effect a systemic change. #hydrogen #hydrogeneconomy #greenhydrogen
Green Hydrogen Consultant | H2 Strategy & Project Development | Power-to-X in the Americas
El hidrógeno verde tiene un gran potencial de descarbonización en diferentes segmentos, pero no es para todo ni para todos, y hay que entender la temporalidad de su viabilidad técnica y económica sin crear falsas expectativas. Afortunadamente la Comisión Federal de Electricidad reconoció a tiempo que la mezcla (o blending) de hidrógeno verde con gas natural para quema en turbinas de ciclo combinado NO es una solución viable en el corto plazo, aterrizando con la realidad, potencialmente ahorrando millones de dólares en proyectos que se anticipaba que no serían competitivos ni rentables, e idealmente volteando a explorar otras alternativas para reducir su huella de carbono, su dependencia de combustibles fósiles, y buscar incrementar la resiliencia de la red eléctrica. Aplaudo este posicionamiento e invito a que sigamos buscando soluciones sostenibles económica, técnica y ambientalmente viables para la transición energética y el uso del hidrógeno verde y sus derivados como el amoniaco o el metanol en aplicaciones y mercados donde hace sentido enfocar los esfuerzos. https://lnkd.in/eVh6Pu2T #CFE #hidrógeno #blending #gasnatural #turbinas #México
Yury Melnikov
6mo
Exactly – discussions about the low roundtrip efficiency of hydrogen power plants often overlook where to source the current 3-month reserves of coal, gas, and oil when we must completely abandon these fuels
Green Hydrogen Consultant | H2 Strategy & Project Development | Power-to-X in the Americas
6moThanks for sharing, Julio. Indeed CFE's public stance towards hydrogen was initially from a different (likely not the most adequate) perspective. At first, it was said it would be to decrease dependency on natural gas imports from the US in the short term, which is not economically feasible and won't be for a while, considering the extremely cheap natural gas we get in Mexico, and a super costly decarbonization measure. There was also little mention of the energy storage side of it. Also, being state-owned, political decisions may stand above any advice it may get, be it good or bad. So it's still in the learning curve, as many utilities are, but steering in a better direction.