Task Force on Hydrogen Integration
Task Force on Hydrogen Integration
Leadership Team
Chair: Jianhui Wang, Southern Methodist University (jianhui@smu.edu)
Co-chair: Kumaraguru Prabakar, National Renewable Energy Laboratory (Kumaraguru.Prabakar@nrel.gov)
Co-chair: Di Wu, Pacific Northwest National Laboratory (Di.Wu@pnnl.gov)
Call For Participation
You are cordially invited to participate in this task force. If you are interested in joining, please contact Prof. Jianhui Wang at jianhui@smu.edu (please indicate your interest/experience in hydrogen in the email).
Background
As a promising solution to addressing the issues raised by the high penetration of renewable energy (RE) (e.g., oversupply and curtailment), hydrogen and hydrogen interfacing assets has gained significant momentum recently.
In particular, green hydrogen is generated using RE with no pollution. Along with blue hydrogen from natural gas, green hydrogen can be used for a variety of applications in an environmentally friendly manner.
- Converting back to electricity (or long term storage for grid support)
- Injecting into natural gas systems
- Supplying hydrogen demand for transportation
Goals of the Task Force
The goal of the task force is to investigate issues related to integration of hydrogen into power systems from the perspectives of operation, planning, and risk assessment.– Models and approaches cover different aspects of power systems and consider the entire hydrogen value chain (e.g., hydrogen production, storage, delivery, and consumption).
To achieve this goal, the task force will investigate the topics including the following:
- Comprehensive literature review on hydrogen modeling
- Electrolyzer modeling, Fuel cell modeling
- Hydrogen hub modeling and simulation
- Hydrogen storage system modeling
- New power system operation and planning models with hydrogen
- New power system risk assessment models and approaches with hydrogen
- Grid forming-grid following fuel cell inverter operation, control and interoperability
Activities
Since its inception in 2023, the TF has organized two panel sessions in IEEE Power & Energy Society General Meeting.
- Panel session “Hydrogen power system integration: opportunities and challenges” in 2023 IEEE Power & Energy Society General Meeting. (Chair: Jianhui Wang, Southern Methodist University)
- Panel session “Hydrogen toward multiple energy delivery pathways and grid services” in 2023 IEEE Power & Energy Society General Meeting. (Chairs: Di Wu and Dexin Wang, Pacific Northwest National Laboratory)
Plan of Future Activities
- Hold a task force kickoff meeting and lay out the work plan for Year 1 and survey the current progress on hydrogen.
- A task force report reviewing hydrogen integration into power systems, including hydrogen hub modeling, coordinated operation and planning and risk assessment of power system with hydrogen, etc.
- Annual PES panel sessions on hydrogen.
- Webinars throughout the life of the task force.
- Conference and journal papers summarizing the findings of the task force.