Adam RollinsNew York’s Energy and Research Development Authority (NYSERDA) recently expanded its portfolio with 26 projects selected through its Innovation program. The innovation projects will play critical roles in preparing New York for a clean energy, fossil fuel-independent future. The program provides resources and funding across several sectors and industries.
The latest batch of approved projects fall under the following categories:
- Renewable Optimization and Energy Storage Innovation.
- Hydrogen and Clean Fuels.
- Grid Modernization.
- Advanced Buildings.
- Commercialization.
NYSERDA selected eight Hydrogen and Clean Fuels projects to receive financial support. These projects center around decarbonizing industrial process heat, facilitating clean hydrogen production integration with renewable energy and demonstrating the utility of hydrogen-based generation systems. A few of the selected projects include:
- Demonstrating the viability of reusable metal fuels of clean hydrogen production through a two-step electrolysis process.
- Creating green hydrogen fuels that provide high-grade industrial heat or serve as a process input while remaining carbon-neutral and minimally impacting manufacturing processes.
- Implementing a small-scale hydrogen production system powered by solar energy that could potentially cost $2 per kilogram of hydrogen within the next decade.
A total of 11 projects will help modernize the grid by improving distributed energy resource coordination and enhancing grid management and integration. Implementation of these technologies will help optimize grid performance, leading to better cost savings and critical transitional support to a sustainable, reliable energy system. Some of the projects include:
- Developing a fixed-wing unmanned aerial system that uses electromagnetic fields to remotely inspect transmission lines.
- Establishing enhanced inverter-based resources interconnection requirements to adopt the state’s future zero-emission electric power system.
- Creating a microgrid hybrid power plant to support a bus depot. The project will expand electric vehicle charging capabilities, ground-mount photovoltaic technologies and evaluate the feasibility of all-electric bus depots.
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