{"id":156151,"date":"2026-05-06T16:45:00","date_gmt":"2026-05-06T14:45:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.immo-invest.ch\/?p=156151"},"modified":"2026-05-04T17:03:58","modified_gmt":"2026-05-04T15:03:58","slug":"brennstoffzellen-sollen-stromnetze-unterstuetzen","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.immo-invest.ch\/en\/brennstoffzellen-sollen-stromnetze-unterstuetzen\/","title":{"rendered":"Fuel cells to support power grids"},"content":{"rendered":"

Researchers from the Swiss Federal Laboratories for Materials Science and Technology(Empa<\/a>) have conducted a joint project on the effect of hydrogen fuel cells in collaboration with the Hälg Group<\/a> from St.Gallen, the Osterwalder Group<\/a>, also based in St.Gallen, and Zurich-based H2 Energy AG<\/a>. The experiment at the Empa Center in Dübendorf showed that the electrical energy generated by the fuel cells could relieve the burden on local power grids in district centers, according to a press release<\/a>.<\/p>\n

The core of the project was to reduce the electricity consumption of heat pumps by producing electrical energy from local district energy cells using hydrogen fuel cells. This energy is fed into the grid to operate the heat pumps, thus reducing the load on the grid. At the same time, the experiment tested using special heat exchangers to supply average temperatures of around 35 degrees Celsius to the heating network of the NEST innovation<\/span> building and the Empa campus in Dübendorf. The test, which ran from October 2023 to September 2025, showed that the district energy cells were able to smooth out peaks in electricity consumption and reduce the overall cost of peak load by 10 percent.<\/p>\n

“Our trials showed that fuel cells can effectively balance electrical and thermal peak loads in buildings. This made it clear that hydrogen-based peak load shaving is technically feasible and provides valuable insights for the control of complex energy systems,” Binod Prasad Koirala, Deputy Head of Empa’s Urban Energy Systems research department, is quoted as saying in the press release. When using green hydrogen, the fuel cells also make a contribution to reducing CO2 emissions.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Researchers at the Swiss Federal Laboratories for Materials Science and Technology have undertaken a project on hydrogen fuel cells in collaboration with the H\u00e4lg Group, the Osterwalder Group and H2 Energy AG. These could relieve the burden on local power grids in district systems.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":156153,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"pmpro_default_level":"","inline_featured_image":false,"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[12476,55978,56026,22698],"tags":[47009,45814,12525,12526,58754,17351,29207,12797],"class_list":["post-156151","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-immonews","category-location-promotion","category-planning-development","category-sustainability","tag-brennstoffzellen-en","tag-co2-reduktion-2-en","tag-immoinvest-en","tag-immonews-en","tag-quartierenergie","tag-stromnetz-en","tag-waermepumpen-en","tag-wasserstoff-en","pmpro-has-access"],"acf":{"bild_mit_ki_erstellt_worden":["Ja"],"lead":"Researchers at the Swiss Federal Laboratories for Materials Science and Technology have undertaken a project on hydrogen fuel cells in collaboration with the H\u00e4lg Group, the Osterwalder Group and H2 Energy AG. These could relieve the burden on local power grids in district systems.","autor":"ce\/ww","ort":"Z\u00fcrich ","bildunterschrift":"","bild_im_grid":false,"gallerie":"","newsim":""},"aioseo_notices":[],"aioseo_head":"\n\t\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t