Abstract
In the last decade, increasing applications of information technology (IT) within power industry has become a significant reality. As distributed power networks are gaining importance and renewables are getting a bigger ratio within energy production, Smart Grid applications have become essential, especially due to the intermittent nature of renewable energy resources. Smart Grid is a sustainable energy system that measures, checks, and controls the generation, transmission, and consumption of electrical energy in grids on all voltage levels. Smart Grid experts are driving forward the development of effective communication and information technologies for the build-up of intelligent power supply networks. Examples of these are control systems for the realization of virtual power plants, intelligent consumer data acquisition systems, and smart distribution management systems. Fuel cell-based hydrogen electricity, in comparison to other renewable energy sources, is more stable and predictable. Yet hydrogen power and smart-grids have many application points, mainly as means of energy storage. This study claims that hydrogen energy and smart-grids could also engage through an appliance of IT managed metering of hydrogen power production. Smart metering and management of hydrogen fuel cells would enable advanced planning of short-to-mid-term power productions and thus foster use of hydrogen power within distributed networks, as local community or industrial applications.
Highlights
In the last decade information communication technologies (ICT) advanced with an astonishing speed
As distributed power networks are gaining importance and renewables are getting a bigger ratio within energy production, Smart Grid applications have become essential, especially due to the intermittent nature of renewable energy resources
This study claims that hydrogen energy and smart-grids could engage through an appliance of information technology (IT) managed metering of hydrogen power production
Summary
In the last decade information communication technologies (ICT) advanced with an astonishing speed. Information or in a simpler form data is a common commodity for every industry ranging in a wide variety, including energy, manufacturing, logistics and environment. Energy sector, in this sense, utilized information communication technology solutions to form intelligently distributed power networks, so called as Smart Grids. The main objective of this study is to represent a model to build a “hydrogen smart grid” which could help to the community to make a connection between the smart grids with the hydrogen fuel cells. The applications of the hydrogen smart grids could aid the community to attain the power without any interrup-
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