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Hydrogen storage and large scale storage

No.

Parameter

Unit

State of the art

FCH 2 JU target

2012

2017

2020

2024

2030

Compressed gas tube trailers

1

Capacity

kg

400

850

1,000

1,000

1,000

2

Capital cost

EUR/kg

550

400

350

350

350

Large scale H2 storage*

1

Chain efficiency

%

-

60

67

70

72

2

Release energy use

kWh/kg

-

13.3

11

10

9.3

3

System capital cost

EUR/kg

1.2

1.1

1.0

0.8

0.6

Notes:

*Storage of at least 10 tones of hydrogen for at least 48 hours, including all necessary conversion steps from clean H2 input to clean H2 output at 30 bar. Correction factors may be applied if actual boundary conditions are different.