As Toyota points out, the system for the power plant that will be fully commissioned by the end of the year, generates about 15 times the power of a previous NREL demonstrator. Or that’s nearly 9,000 times the automotive-grade fuel cell stack used in the Toyota Mirai<\/a>.\u00a0<\/p>\n In addition to the 1-mw fuel-cell generator, the project includes a 600-kg hydrogen storage system (more than 100 times the storage in the Mirai) and a 1.25-mw PEM electrolyzer. It\u2019s part of a larger NREL project seeking to demonstrate \u201cdirect renewable hydrogen production, energy storage, power production and grid integration at the megawatt scale,\u201d according to Toyota.\u00a0<\/p>\n Toyota megawatt hydrogen fuel-cell station research project<\/p>\n<\/div>\n With the project, researchers also plan to explore new applications for the technology and how it might integrate with other systems\u2014potentially in industrial uses, or to combine in powering heavy-duty equipment.\u00a0<\/p>\n From this, in the future, such systems might be used to strategically store and release\u2014with hydrogen\u2014renewable energy like solar and wind, in place of large scale battery packs that would require more raw materials to build.\u00a0<\/p>\n It\u2019s working with systems integrator Telios on the design of the plant, and they plan to\u00a0 \u201cpush the operational boundaries of the fuel cell system design\u201d to get an understanding of the limitations and degradation.\u00a0<\/p>\n Kenworth T680 with Toyota hydrogen fuel-cell powertrain, at 2019 CES<\/p>\n<\/div>\n Toyota, which hasn\u2019t embraced battery electric vehicles as rapidly as other automakers, but like Hyundai<\/a> it has continued to expand its hydrogen fuel-cell plans for the U.S.\u2014especially pushing the tech into larger vehicles. It has for years been using fuel-cell semis<\/a> for Southern California port duty, and in an expansion of plans to use the tech for trucks and industrial uses it announced that it will make fuel-cell modules in the U.S.<\/a> starting in 2023, in Kentucky. Toyota has even announced that it\u2019s developing hydrogen combustion engines<\/a> for racing.\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Toyota announced last week that it\u2019s collaborating with the U.S. Department of Energy and its National Renewable Energy Laboratory (NREL) to provide a new proof point for hydrogen fuel-cell tech\u2014in a megawatt-scale, multitasking power-generation package that might potentially be used for renewable energy storage and smoothing the grid. 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