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SMART Life with Hydrogen (EN)

Cooperation Project with Naturgy: Open Innovation Project

In 2016, the company Gas Natural Fenosa (now Naturgy) challenged the research community of the four Spanish polytechnic universities twice (convocatoria UP4 Solutions). One of the challenges was GRID INTEGRATION: innovative developments that help, either alone or as part of a more global solution, to integrate electric and gas grids.

Our proposal was the only one chosen, the idea was to create a power switch that could connect bidirectionally the gas and electric grids.

After the first phase that consisted of a detailed analysis, simulation and another techno-economic analysis, we carried out the first experimentations on laboratory.

(Pie de foto) Experimentation (Official Laboratory Madariaga, LOM)

The results were satisfactory and we are now working to finish the studies and ESCALAR LOS RESULTADOS.

The Project has been awarded by the Polytechnic University of Madrid as the best public-private partnership project of 2019.