Salt caverns for hydrogen storage
ReportsThe UK should help kickstart the development of salt-cavern hydrogen storage to meet its goal of net zero by 2050, says the Royal Society. Work on constructing the caverns should begin immediately, the new report states, where parts of the UK have the right geology for the storage projects. Large-scale electricity storage is needed to smooth out variations in wind and solar, particularly long-term variations in wind. Storing most of the surplus as hydrogen, in salt caverns, would be the cheapest way of doing this, says the report.
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