A Review of the Impact of Hydrogen Integration in Natural Gas Distribution Networks and Electric Smart Grids

Hydrogen technologies have been rapidly developing in the past few decades, pushed by governments’ road maps for sustainability and supported a widespread need to decarbonize global energy sector. Recent scientific progress has led better performances higher efficiencies of hydrogen-related technologies, so much that their future economic viability is now rarely called into question. This article intends study integration hydrogen systems both gas electric distribution networks. A preliminary analysis hydrogen’s physical storage methods given, considering advantages disadvantages each one. After examining preeminent ways physically storing hydrogen, this paper then contemplates two primary means using it: integrating it Power-to-Gas networks utilizing Power-to-Power smart grids. In former, objective total replacement natural with through progressive blending procedures, from transmission pipeline domestic burner; latter, set goal expansion implementation systems—namely storage—in multi-microgrid networks, thus helping electricity sector reducing impact renewable energy’s intermittence Demand Side Management strategies. The concludes assumed be an vector inextricable necessary transition cleaner, more efficient, sustainable future.