Utility and industrial companies are facing heightened pressures to find new ways of harnessing the power of renewable energy. Power and water utilities, for example, are searching for opportunities to reduce their carbon footprint, and better leverage excess renewable power. Industrial companies are looking for approaches to decarbonize their processes, and minimize energy costs.

Forward-thinking organizations recognize that hydrogen is critical to both decarbonizing many industrial processes and harnessing the potential of excess renewable energy.

The challenge is effectively producing this green hydrogen. Companies must overcome the unpredictability of renewable energy sources, and the fact that hydrogen demand is detached from power generation, and beyond any company’s complete control.

Lack of operational experience with hydrogen plants is another challenge, particularly when facing pressure to keep the Levelized Cost of Hydrogen low enough to make hydrogen viable in the first place.

ABB’s unique portfolio of digital solutions for the green hydrogen industry is the key to meeting these challenges.

• Manage Renewables intermittency
• Use available flexibility like e.g. H2 storage, BESS, etc. to maximize profitability and reduce expenses
• Take advantage of Energy Market opportunities
• Monitoring, controlling and optimally orchestrating of electrical energy, heat and mass flows of the whole production process.
• Predictive optimization of electrolyzers, multiple available storages and flexible generation & consumption of all energy types based on hydrogen demand schedules, and/or renewable energy production and/or market schedules during operation.
• Real-time-control of single electrolyzer modules, based on individual efficiency curves and security constraints.
• Participation in ancillary service markets like primary/frequency reserve (FCR) and secondary reserve (aFRR).

• Reduces the risk and number of unplanned shutdowns with realistic DCS simulation
• Enhances safety while training operators
• Simulates how plants will behave

• Manage slow dynamics, complex interactions and constraints
• Increases product throughput
• Improves energy efficiency
• Reduces production costs by operating safely at the closest possible process constraint limits

• Improves safety in any industrial process
• Helps you develop optimum basis of safety
• Ensures operational risks are managed
• Identifies opportunities for improvement

• Improves safety by reducing risk of human error in plant operations
• Supports alarm management activities throughout the full lifecycle of the plant
• Scales based on industry standards and guidelines

• Enables a more-reliable and stable electricity supply to process industries
• Gives operators better visibility and information
• Drives optimal use of total power resources

Increased efficiency

Reduced electrical life cycle cost

Better decisions, more quickly