H2@scale in Texas and Beyond: Creating a Renewable Hydrogen Energy Network Demonstrating Integrated Hydrogen Production and End-use Technologies

In a H2@Scale in Texas and Beyond project, GTI Energy—along with Frontier Energy, the University of Texas-Center for Electromechanics (UT-CEM), and almost two dozen industry stakeholders and sponsors—is co-leading a project to design, build, and operate one of the largest collections of renewable hydrogen production, on-site storage, and end-use technologies ever assembled at one site. The project is supported by the U.S. Department of Energy’s (DOE) Hydrogen and Fuel Cell Technologies Office.

This micro-hydrogen ecosystem, located on the UT J.J. Pickle research campus in Austin, serves as a precursor to hydrogen hub development and lays the foundation for expanding hydrogen’s role in decarbonizing Texas. Renewable natural gas, wind, and solar will be converted to hydrogen for use in transportation and commercial applications, including UT’s data center, fuel cell drones, and a fleet of Toyota Mirai FCEVs.

GTI Energy designed and built a steam methane reformer (SMR), a critical piece of equipment for hydrogen generation that is a vital component of the H2@scale in Texas installation. The operational phase of the demonstration site is getting underway.