Its main aim is to develop storage systems that will allow for greater integration of renewable energies into the generation mix.

It is currently working on the use of the hydrogen vector as an energy storage system, produced via water electrolysis based on renewable sources that result in green or renewable hydrogen. Other possible systems are also explored, such as, for example, flow batteries.

This service provides technical assistance in the areas of:

• Improving the integration of renewable energies, using hydrogen to store the energy
• Producing hydrogen via wind energy-based electrolysis and reconversion of hydrogen into electrical energy:
  • Modelling electrochemical systems: electrolysers, fuel cells
  • Modelling alternative reconversion systems (turbines, motors, etc.)
  • Dimensioning the necessary installations to integrate hydrogen into a wind farm
• Using hydrogen in residential applications. Dimensioning the necessary installations to integrate hydrogen into buildings.

Present projects

stoRE aims to facilitate the realization of the ambitious objectives for renewable energy by unblocking the potential for energy storage infrastructure. Energy storage, as part of an integrated approach including grid reinforcement and demand management helps accommodate higher percentages of intermittent renewable energy by balancing the supply and demand and improving the power quality.

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Microgrid

This is a microgrid for industrial application, designed in principle to supply part of the electrical loads of the specific facilities of the LEA as well as part of the public lighting of the industrial estate.

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Present projects

The project aims to define, design, develop and implement intelligent control systems of energy that facilitate the real-time management of a microgrid of electric energy applied to an industrial area with high penetration rate of renewable energy, in order to change the concept 'pollutant' associated to industrial areas, by another different: "ecological industrial areas capable of developing its own technology".

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