Renewable energy project to be studied at Clemson University

A $200 thousand federal grant, announced today, will allow two energy companies and Clemson University to collaborate on a study of the use of hydrogen for energy storage and as a low-or-no-carbon source to make energy at Duke Energy’s combined heat and power plant at the university.  The grant was awarded to Siemens Energy.  It’s a pilot project to ramp up in March and include studies on hydrogen production, storage and co-firing with natural gas.  Siemens is to study the use of an electro-lyzer to produce hydrogen fuel to help power the existing gas turbine at the Clemson plant.  For several years, Duke has been evaluating hydrogen as a low-or-no-carbon fuel source to help it meeting a net-zero carbon goal by 2050.