Engineering company Atkins has been chosen by the Energy Technologies Institute (ETI) to lead a six-month, £170,000 ($208,000) project to examine 30 UK salt caverns' suitability to store hydrogen. The project, which will be carried out in partnership with the University of Southampton, is part of an EU-funded research programme called Hydrogen and Fuel Cell for Transport (HFCT). "We believe that storing and using hydrogen could be a low-cost way of providing clean power for peak and load following demand, said ETI CCS strategy manager Den Gammer said: "A single cavern could potentially provide enough storage capacity to satisfy the peak demands of a UK city."
Engineering company Atkins has been chosen by the Energy Technologies Institute (ETI) to lead a six-month, £170,000 ($208,000) project to examine 30 UK salt caverns' suitability to store hydrogen. Sites in Cheshire, Teesside and East Yorkshire will be examined, while cavern storage operators, Storengy, SSE Gas Storage and SAVOC, will provide Atkins with data to develop each cavern model. "We believe that storing and using hydrogen could be a low-cost way of providing clean power for peak and load following demand, said ETI CCS strategy manager Den Gammer said: "A single cavern could potentially provide enough storage capacity to satisfy the peak demands of a UK city."