Two research teams, from the CRAN Laboratory (CNRS/University of Lorraine) and the Nancy Electrical Energy Research Group (GREEN – University of Lorraine), located at the IUT of Longwy, have decided to join forces in an interdisciplinary project: the modeling and control of a power converter to power an electrolyzer within a hydrogen production chain based on a renewable energy source (wind, photovoltaic).
Within the framework of the development of technological strategies to oppose global warming, it is important to develop non-carbon solutions allowing to store electrical energy, then to distribute it according to the needs, because this energy cannot be kept on the electrical network. Hydrogen represents an attractive and promising solution for storing and supplying electrical energy that has already been produced. Moreover, hydrogen-based technologies are well adapted to the modularity of renewable energy sources.