Toshiba completes solar-powered hydrogen production/storage system at hotel

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6. “not a statement that it is designed for load shifting across seasons.”

https://www.toshiba.co.jp/about/press/2015_10/pr0701.htm

[font face=Serif][font size=5]Toshiba Wins Order to Supply Independent Hydrogen Energy Supply System to Kyushu Resort[/font]

[font size=4]“H2One™” at Huis Ten Bosch Theme Park[/font]

7 Oct, 2015

[font size=3]TOKYO— Toshiba Corporation today announced that it has received an order from Huis Ten Bosch, Co., Ltd., the operator of a Holland-themed resort in Nagasaki, Kyushu, for the independent hydrogen energy supply system “H2One™”, designed as Resort Model. This system will supply electricity for the Phase-2 building of its Hennna Hotel that is scheduled to open in March 2016. This is Toshiba’s first commercial delivery of its independent hydrogen energy supply system.

The H2One™, designed as Resort Model is expected to be used for areas where energy infrastructure is inadequate, or where hotel operators want to minimize their environmental footprint. By making full use of renewable energy and hydrogen-powered fuel cells, H2One™ designed as Resort Model offers CO2-free, environmentally friendly solution that can produce all the energy needed by hotels and other resort facilities.

Long hours of sunshine allow photovoltaic generation to provide more than enough electricity to power the Henna Hotel’s Phase 2 building during summer, and this installed system will use surplus power to electrolyze water and produce hydrogen. The hydrogen will be stored in a tank, ready for use on demand, and in winter it will be used to power fuel cells that generate electricity and warm water. The H2One™ designed as Resort Model has enough capacity to supply Henna Hotel’s Phase 2 with electricity throughout the year.

The H2One™, designed as Resort Model is also equipped with the new hydrogen tank that contains a hydrogen storage alloy supporting much improved high-density storage. The new tank is less than one-tenth of the size of the conventional model it replaces, and suitable for use even in small spaces.

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https://www.toshiba.co.jp/about/press/2016_03/pr1402.htm

[font face=Serif][font size=5]Toshiba H2One™ Hydrogen Based Autonomous Energy Supply System Now Providing Power to a Kyushu Resort Hotel[/font]

[font size=4]Using Renewable Energy, H2One™ Supplies Electricity All Year Round[/font]

14 Mar, 2016

[font size=3]TOKYO—Toshiba Corporation(TOKYO:6502) today announced that H2One™, Toshiba’s hydrogen based autonomous energy supply system, which integrates renewable energy generation and uses hydrogen as a fuel for power generation, has entered operation in the Phase-2 building of the Hennna Hotel, at the Huis Ten Bosch theme park in Nagasaki, Kyushu.

H2One™ integrates a photovoltaic power generation system with batteries for storing output power, a hydrogen-producing water electrolysis unit, hydrogen storage alloy tank, and a hydrogen fuel cell unit. In the Resort Model version of H2OneTM installed at Henna Hotel, this configuration delivers a CO2-free, environmentally friendly solution for hotels and other resort facilities.

Toshiba’s unique hydrogen EMS (Energy Management System) is an optimum technology that aligns a number of energy paths to ensure that intermittent power generation satisfies energy demand. The long hours of summer sunshine of Kyushu, the third largest and southernmost of Japan’s main islands, allow H2One™ photovoltaic energy system to generate enough renewable energy to meet all the requirements of the 12 rooms in the Henna Hotel’s Phase 2, and additional power to electrolyze water and produce hydrogen. The hydrogen is stored in the system’s integrated tank, ready for use on demand, and in winter powers fuel cells that generate electricity and warm water. The H2One’s™ capacity is sufficient enough to supply Henn na Hotel’s Phase 2 with electricity all year round.

The H2One™ installed at Henna Hotel deploys a hydrogen storage tank made with a new hydrogen storage alloy that achieves much improved high-density storage. The tank is less than one-tenth the size of the conventional model it replaces, and suitable for use even in small spaces.

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It sure reads like they are using excess solar capacity in the Summer to generate hydrogen for use in the Winter.