RENEWABLE ENERGY STORAGE
Located in Delta, Utah, the Advanced Clean Energy Storage hub will be a large renewable energy storage facility. The site will enable utility and industrial scale green hydrogen production from renewable energy sources and store the hydrogen in underground salt dome caverns to provide a huge reservoir of renewable fuel for power generation, industry, transportation and beyond.
The Advanced Clean Energy Storage site will support the Intermountain Power Agency’s (IPA) IPP Renewed Project—an 840 MW hydrogen-capable gas turbine combined cycle power plant that will initially run on a blend of green hydrogen and natural gas starting in 2025 and incrementally expanding to 100% green hydrogen by 2045. From this initial project, ACES Delta will support the clean energy transition.
PROVIDING OVER 300 GWH OF
CLEAN ENERGY STORAGE
The Advanced Clean Energy Storage Site will initially be designed to convert over 220 MW of renewable energy to 100 metric tonnes per day of green hydrogen, which will then be stored in two massive salt caverns capable upon start up of storing more than 300 GWh of dispatchable clean energy.
A COMPLETE END-TO-END SOLUTION FOR CLEAN ENERGY
The Advanced Clean Energy Storage Site provides a complete end-to-end solution to produce, store, and convert renewable hydrogen to support carbon-free, year-round power for the western United States.
Convert GREEN HYDROGEN
The Advanced Clean Energy Storage Site will capture excess renewable energy, such as wind and solar, during off-peak hours to inexpensively power electrolyzers that convert water molecules to “green” hydrogen and oxygen. Representing one of the world’s largest orders for electrolysis equipment, the Advanced Clean Energy Storage Site will nearly double the global installed capacity for electrolysis.
STORE GREEN HYDROGEN
The hydrogen will be stored in two massive, subterranean salt caverns, each capable of storing 5,500 metric tonnes of working capacity. The salt cavern storage capacity will make it possible to store excess renewable energy produced in the spring when energy demand is low and use it to generate energy in the summer when demand is high.
DELIVER GREEN HYDROGEN
The Advanced Clean Energy Storage Site’s central Utah location can seamlessly integrate with the Western power grid and interstate gas transmission system. This project will serve as a green hydrogen gas and storage site for the Western United States, delivering green hydrogen for the power generation, industrial, and transportation sectors.
GENERATE POWER FROM GREEN HYDROGEN
The stored green hydrogen will then be used to fuel hydrogen-capable gas turbine combined cycle power plant that will run on a blend of green hydrogen and natural gas starting in 2025 and incrementally expanding to 100% by 2045.
THE ECONOMIC BENEFITS
The development and operation of the Advanced Clean Energy Storage Site will provide significant economic benefits to the state and supporting regions.
400
LOCAL CONSTRUCTION JOBS
25
FULL TIME PERSONNEL
$100M
BENEFITING UTAH SCHOOLS
$180M
IN STATE PROPERTY TAXES
GREEN HYDROGEN FUNDAMENTALLY CHANGES
THE WAY WE STORE ENERGY.
It would take more than 40,000 shipping containers of lithium-ion batteries to produce the equivalent megawatt-hours of energy that one hydrogen salt cavern can store. Just one of the salt caverns at the Advanced Clean Energy Storage site has the capacity to store the entire state of California’s monthly curtailed energy.
