RT Journal Article
T1 Profitability of Hydrogen-Based Microgrids: A Novel Economic Analysis in Terms of Electricity Price and Equipment Costs
A1 Rey Luengo, Jesús
A1 Segura Manzano, Francisca
A1 Andújar Márquez, José Manuel
AB The current need to reduce carbon emissions makes hydrogen use essential for selfconsumption in microgrids. To make a profitability analysis of a microgrid, the influence of equipmentcosts and the electricity price must be known. This paper studies the cost-effective electricity price(EUR/kWh) for a microgrid located at ‘’La Rábida Campus” (University of Huelva, south of Spain),for two different energy-management systems (EMSs): hydrogen-priority strategy and batterypriority strategy. The profitability analysis is based, on one hand, on the hydrogen-systems’ costreduction (%) and, on the other hand, considering renewable energy sources (RESs) and energystorage systems (ESSs), on cost reduction (%). Due to technological advances, microgrid-elementcosts are expected to decrease over time; therefore, future profitable electricity prices will be evenlower. Results show a cost-effective electricity price ranging from 0.61 EUR/kWh to 0.16 EUR/kWhfor hydrogen-priority EMSs and from 0.4 EUR/kWh to 0.17 EUR/kWh for battery-priority EMSs(0 and 100% hydrogen-system cost reduction, respectively). These figures still decrease sharply if RESand ESS cost reductions are considered. In the current scenario of uncertainty in electricity prices, themicrogrid studied may become economically competitive in the near future
PB MDPI
SN 2079-9292 (electrónico)
YR 2023
FD 2023-10
LK https://hdl.handle.net/10272/22645
UL https://hdl.handle.net/10272/22645
LA eng
NO Rey, J., Segura, F., & Andújar, J. M. (2023). Profitability of Hydrogen-Based Microgrids: A Novel Economic Analysis in Terms of Electricity Price and Equipment Costs. In Electronics (Vol. 12, Issue 20, p. 4355). MDPI AG. https://doi.org/10.3390/electronics12204355
NO This research was funded by the Spanish Government, grant (1) Ref: PID2020-116616RBC31and grant (2) Ref: RED2022-134588-T REDGENERA.: This research was possible thanks to the work of Andrea Monforti Ferrario, whodeveloped the software with which a simulation of the described microgrid was performed, whichsubsequently led to the profitability study carried out in this paper
DS Repositorio Institucional de la Universidad de Huelva
RD 30 may 2026