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Mitsubishi Power Selects Emerson Software and Technologies for Advanced Clean Energy Storage Hydrogen Hub

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Emerson (NYSE: EMR) has partnered with Mitsubishi Power Americas to automate the world’s largest green hydrogen production and storage facility, aiming to optimize renewable energy integration. This facility will use a 220-MW electrolyzer bank to produce up to 100 tons of green hydrogen daily, with storage capacity of 300 GWh in salt caverns. The project aims to enhance renewable energy management, supporting clean electricity generation while reducing costs and improving safety through Emerson’s advanced automation solutions.

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  • Partnership with Mitsubishi Power for a major hydrogen production facility enhances Emerson's market position.
  • Facility can produce up to 100 tons of green hydrogen per day, significantly contributing to renewable energy storage.
  • The Advanced Clean Energy hub has a storage capacity of 300 GWh, far exceeding conventional lithium-ion battery storage.
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Integrated control and safety platform optimizes world’s largest green hydrogen production and storage facility and supports reliable, clean power generation

PITTSBURGH--(BUSINESS WIRE)-- Mitsubishi Power Americas, Inc. has selected Emerson (NYSE: EMR), a global software and engineering leader, to automate the world’s largest green hydrogen production and storage facility. The industry-leading hub will help integrate renewable energy by producing and storing green hydrogen for long duration energy storage. Mitsubishi Power will leverage Emerson’s hydrogen production experience and automation software expertise to increase safety, decrease costs and simplify maintenance across the life cycle of the facility.

Excess renewable energy generated during the winter and spring is difficult and costly to store in its native state for use during the peak summer season and, as a result, is wasted. The Advanced Clean Energy Storage hub will use renewable electricity to power electrolyzers to produce green hydrogen. The produced hydrogen will be stored underground in salt caverns so that it can be dispatched when required to generate clean electricity from hydrogen-fueled turbines, which will help stabilize the grid with sustainable sources and create a new pathway to decarbonization of the western United States.

“Generating, storing and transmitting electricity with zero carbon emissions is critical to meeting the world’s sustainable power generation needs,” said Michael Ducker, senior vice president of Hydrogen Infrastructure for Mitsubishi Power Americas and president of Advanced Clean Energy Storage I. “Emerson’s hydrogen expertise and digitally connected architecture design will help shorten time to start up, while also developing a safe, reliable and easily scalable transmission system to meet our goals for renewable energy production and storage.”

The Advanced Clean Energy Storage hub will convert renewable energy through the 220-megawatt (MW) electrolyzer bank to produce up to 100 tons of green hydrogen per day. The facility will have storage for 300 gigawatt hours (GWh) of energy in two salt caverns. In comparison, the battery storage capacity across the United States is 2-GWh via lithium-ion batteries. The Advanced Clean Energy Storage hub has space for up to 100 caverns.

This first-of-its-kind integrated facility will provide short- and long-duration hydrogen storage for use during peak seasons and throughout the year at the nearby 840-MW Intermountain Power Project (IPP Renewed). IPP Renewed will use 30% (vol) hydrogen fuel in Mitsubishi Power M501JAC gas turbines at start up, transitioning to 100% (vol) hydrogen by 2045. Emerson and Mitsubishi Power are collaborating on digital solutions for IPP Renewed to optimize plant performance, improve reliability and create cleaner, more reliable power.

“One of the most complex issues in power distribution is successfully managing variability of demand and supply to reduce stress on the grid,” said Bob Yeager, president of Emerson’s power and water business. “Mitsubishi Power has successfully leveraged the digital automation stack to develop an innovative, sustainable way to solve that problem, enabling providers to consistently use peak-production renewable energy in peak-consumption hours.”

Mitsubishi Power will use Emerson’s Ovation™ integrated control and safety platform to optimize the Advanced Clean Energy Storage hub’s production efficiency and help ensure safe operations. The Ovation platform will provide reliable control and monitoring of the renewable hydrogen production process and emergency shutdown, fire and gas protection. The platform will also gather and contextualize data from the plant’s wide variety of third-party systems to help eliminate complexity and risk. Emerson’s PACSystems™ RSTi-EP I/O will provide easier field connectivity and help facilitate project changes without extending timelines or increasing cost, while AMS Device Manager will help monitor the health of plant assets to improve safety, reliability, efficiency and sustainability.

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Emerson (NYSE: EMR), headquartered in St. Louis, Missouri (USA), is a global technology and software company providing innovative solutions for customers in industrial, commercial and residential markets. Our Automation Solutions business helps process, hybrid and discrete manufacturers maximize production, protect personnel and the environment while optimizing their energy and operating costs. Our Commercial & Residential Solutions business helps ensure human comfort and health, protect food quality and safety, advance energy efficiency and create sustainable infrastructure. For more information visit Emerson.com.

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What is the partnership between Emerson and Mitsubishi Power about?

Emerson has partnered with Mitsubishi Power to automate the world's largest green hydrogen production and storage facility.

How much green hydrogen will the facility produce per day?

The facility will produce up to 100 tons of green hydrogen daily.

What is the energy storage capacity of the Advanced Clean Energy Storage hub?

The hub will have a storage capacity of 300 GWh in salt caverns.

What technologies will Emerson provide for the hydrogen facility?

Emerson will provide its integrated control and safety platform to enhance efficiency and safety.

How does the facility help with renewable energy integration?

The facility will use excess renewable energy to produce hydrogen, thus optimizing renewable energy management.

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