Wednesday, February 22, 2023, 11:00 AM - 01:00 PM ET
Title ACES Delta Project: Low-Carbon, Green Hydrogen Energy Storage Abstract
With both domestic and international priorities in low-carbon energy solutions, hydrogen has become a popular potential alternative for large-scale power generation and other energy related uses. However, though in many ways ideal as an emissions free fuel source, hydrogen faces significant complications, both commercial and operational, and while generation and end-use are often highlighted in the discussion around the hydrogen economy, no commodity application can succeed without an expansive, reliable, and scalable infrastructure system including efficient transmission and storage facilities. Specific to storage, though natural gas and other commodity fluids has long been established as a safe, efficient and commercially viable means of storing energy, very few facilities currently exist that replicate these efforts for hydrogen, and while these salt cavern facilities have been operating for many years, no proof of concept exists globally for the large-scale storage of pure hydrogen in porous media, which currently accounts for the largest share of natural gas storage by a significant margin. Finding long term, large scale storage solutions for hydrogen storage still remains a challenge for the emerging hydrogen economy. One such storage facility is the ACES Delta project, a joint venture by Magnum and Mitsubishi currently being developed in Delta, Utah that will create the world’s largest green hydrogen storage facility. This facility will take excess renewable electricity from the grid, store that energy as hydrogen in salt caverns through electrolysis, which will later fuel a hydrogen fired power plant and return the energy to the grid based on demand. This presentation will highlight the ACES project design as a case study for future commercial hydrogen opportunities, and will also summarize the current and potential future state of the hydrogen economy and focus on the physical and financial challenges involved in the storage and transport of hydrogen at scale.
Bio
Zachary Evans is the Reservoir Storage Manager for WSP, a global leader in underground energy storage consulting, where he leads reservoir engineering and business development efforts in both traditional natural gas storage and other porous media applications. Mr. Evans has over 15 years of underground storage experience, having spent the majority of his career as a Senior Storage Engineer for the Columbia Gas / TC Energy family of companies operating the continent’s largest underground storage and pipeline system. Prior to his time in storage, he spent several years working as an MWD/LWD engineer for Schlumberger Drilling & Measurements with international placements in Saudi Arabia, Southeast Asia and Australia.
He serves on the Southern Gas Association’s Underground Storage Committee, is a two-time chair of the SGA’s Underground Storage Roundtable, served as a team lead for the American Petroleum Institute’s review of underground storage recommended practices, and recently completed service as a member of the Society of Petroleum Engineers International Board as the Regional Director of North America.
Mr. Evans has a B.S. in Petroleum and Natural Gas Engineering from West Virginia University and currently resides in the Charleston, West Virginia metro area.
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