Renewables pose an intermittency problem
Wartsila’s hydrogen power plant game-changer
World’s first large-scale 100% hydrogen-ready engine power plant aims to balance intermittent renewables
Finland-based Wartsila has launched a large-scale, fully hydrogen-ready engine power plant in what the company says is a world first. While scaling up renewables is crucial, it will not be enough by itself to achieve global net-zero targets. To balance the intermittent nature of wind and solar energy, flexible power generation solutions such as engine power plants are vital. These solutions must be future-proof and capable of using sustainable fuels to fully decarbonise the energy sector. The hydrogen-ready engine power plant is designed to be converted to run on 100% hydrogen and represents an improvement on current technology, which can operate only on natural gas and hydrogen blends of up
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