Davis-Besse tapped for hydrogen research project

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Staff Writer

A $9.2 million research project to install an electrolysis unit at the Davis-Besse Nuclear Power Station has been announced by the U.S. Department of Energy.
FirstEnergy Solutions has been selected to develop a light-water hybrid energy system. The project will address interfaces required for hybrid operations, including controls to apportion power output between the electrical grid and an electrolysis unit.
A report describing outcomes and business opportunities will be shared with parties interested in the hybrid systems.
“FirstEnergy Solutions welcomes the opportunity to partner with the Department of Energy and the Idaho National Labs on the demonstration project at Davis-Besse,” the company said in a prepared statement. “The project will utilize the clean, carbon-free electricity from the nuclear plant to produce hydrogen for the beneficial use by industrial and commercial customers within and around the State of Ohio. It will demonstrate a potential non-electric use of commercial nuclear power plants and another means for revenue generation at this and other commercial nuclear power plants.”
Representative Marcy Kaptur, chair of the House Appropriations Subcommittee on Energy and Water Development, said the funding “…will play an important role in improving Davis-Besse’s capacity to produce useable energy in a way that is more economically sustainable, has more industrial uses and makes Davis-Besse economically competitive for the long-term. New energy production that meets the needs of a changing economy and advances science at the highest levels holds the potential to attract new jobs and retain hundreds of highly skilled jobs at Ottawa County’s largest employer for years to come.”
She said the project will be cost-shared between federal agencies, industry-led teams and public and private laboratories with non-DOE partners investing $2.3 million for a total of $11.5 million.
The project was competitively awarded.
The Davis-Besse project was one of three projects announced by the DOE, which is also partially funding research projects in Florida and Washington under the current round of awards through the Office of Nuclear Energy.

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