Techno-economic analysis of developing an underground hydrogen storage facility in depleted gas field: A Dutch case study

Seyed Hamidreza Yousefi; Remco Groenenberg; Joris Koornneef; Joaquim Juez-Larré; Mina Shahi

doi:10.1016/j.ijhydene.2023.04.090

Techno-economic analysis of developing an underground hydrogen storage facility in depleted gas field: A Dutch case study

Seyed Hamidreza Yousefi^*
, Remco Groenenberg
, Joris Koornneef
, Joaquim Juez-Larré
, Mina Shahi

^*Corresponding author for this work

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Underground hydrogen storage will be an essential part of the future hydrogen infrastructure to provide flexibility and security of supply. Storage in porous reservoirs should complement storage in salt caverns to be able to meet the projected high levels of required storage capacities. To assess its techno-economic feasibility, a case study of hydrogen storage in a depleted gas field in the Netherlands is developed. Subsurface modelling is performed and various surface facility design concepts are investigated to calculate the levelized cost of hydrogen storage (LCOHS). Our base case with hydrogen as cushion gas results in an LCOHS of 0.79 EUR/kg (range of 0.58–1.04 EUR/kg). Increasing the number of full-cycle equivalents from 1 to 6 lowers the storage cost to 0.25 EUR/kg. The investment cost of the cushion gas represents 76% of the total cost. With nitrogen as cushion gas, LCOHS is reduced to 0.49 EUR/kg (range of 0.42–0.56 EUR/kg).

Original language	English
Pages (from-to)	28824-28842
Number of pages	19
Journal	International journal of hydrogen energy
Volume	48
Issue number	74
Early online date	26 Apr 2023
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ijhydene.2023.04.090
Publication status	Published - 29 Aug 2023

Keywords

Depleted gas field
Hydrogen surface facilities
Levelized cost of hydrogen storage
Subsurface modelling
Underground hydrogen storage
UT-Hybrid-D

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