Power-to-power with hydrogen storage in connection to windpower

Renewable energy will presumably constitute most of the energy production within the next coming years. Both globally and in Sweden the governments continuously implement new guidelines to enable more renewable energy in the energy system. This implicates higher amount of intermittent energy resources, for instance wind power, which can be a challenge due to electricity demand and electricity production. There are several solutions which can be implemented in order to adapt the electricity production to the electricity demand, one of them is a power-to-power system. This project aims to analyze whether a power-to-power system with hydrogen storage can be profitable. A power-to-power system is defined by storing the surplus power production from intermittent energy resources as form of hydrogen. The hydrogen will at a future time be generated back to power when the electricity demand increases. In the examined work the hydrogen is produced through a water electrolysis with electricity from wind power when the electricity prices are low. The hydrogen will be used in fuel cells to generate electricity which can be sold when the electricity prices are high. The project investigates two counties with different amount of installed capacities from wind power. Two scenarios are applied for the two counties, what distinguish each scenario is the limit of electricity price when the electricity from wind power starts being utilized to produced hydrogen instead of transferred to the electricity grid. The results indicates that the electricity price need to reach a high level for the system to be profitable. It is not likely the electricity prices will reach that level more than a few times a year considering the electricity price levels the last couple of years