HOMER Knowledge Base

HOMER Knowledge Base

Hydrogen analysis

I am trying to use Homer to do some hydrogen analysis.  I'd like to run a scenario where I determine the cost of hydrogen produced using wind and different grid price mixtures.  However, currently I have a wind/electrolyzer/hydrogen tank/hydrogen load system set up, and Homer does not provide a cost of hydrogen.  Is this outside the scope of the tool?

 

I wouldn't say that's outside the scope of HOMER, we just haven't thought about it before.  If the system is serving a hydrogen load only, you could calculate the "levelized cost of hydrogen" by dividing the total annualized cost ($/yr) by the total hydrogen load served (kg/yr).  That would be analogous to the levelized cost of energy output.  But if the system is serving an electric load or a thermal load in addition to a hydrogen load, it's not clear how you would apportion the costs to calculate the cost of hydrogen.