Analysis: Can hydrogen help prevent future blackouts?
Following the power outages in Iberia and system failures at Heathrow Airport earlier this year, an energy storage expert told H2 View that hydrogen is no longer a peripheral solution – it’s essential.
The timely failures raised questions around whether clean energy, in particular hydrogen, is an answer to energy resilience or an added risk. Physicist and energy storage expert Prof Sir Chris Llewellyn Smith suggested that the conversation around grid stability needs to be reframed entirely.
“I don’t think ‘backup’ is the right word [for hydrogen],” he told H2 View. “If we’re reliant on large volumes of intermittent renewables like wind and solar, hydrogen isn’t peripheral – it becomes central.”
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