In the UK, Global Construction Review reported that researchers at the US state-funded National Renewable Energy Laboratory (NREL) noted that wind farms off the coast of New York could power green hydrogen production at below $2 a kilogram by 2030.
They evaluated four different scenarios to calculate the potential “levelized cost” of a wind-hydrogen system and concluded that fixed-bottom wind farms in the body of water known as the New York Bight would get closest to the US Department of Energy’s goal of producing green hydrogen at $1/kg by 2031, according to the report.
The report also highlighted that the New York scenario beat a system simulated in the Gulf of Mexico because of the northern region’s higher wind speeds.
It also beat much deeper waters off the coast of northern California and in the Gulf of Maine, where the turbines would have to float.
“Both offshore wind and clean hydrogen production are technologies that are rapidly evolving and when combined have the potential to generate and store a lot of renewable energy and decarbonize sectors that are hard to electrify,” said Kaitlin Brunik, hybrid systems research engineer at NREL and lead author of the paper.
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Tags: green hydrogen, NREL, USA, wind farms
Category: Research
