Low wind power costs pump up hydrogen economy prospects

Falling renewable energy prices are set to make the idea of using clean electricity to produce hydrogen take-off, German researchers have found. Gunther Glenk from the Technical University of Munich and Stefan Reichelstein from the University of Mannheim and Stanford University have devised a general-purpose economic model for power-to-gas plants. ‘We’re already getting close to making hydrogen produced from wind power cost competitive,’ Reichelstein tells Chemistry World.