Hybrid Renewable Hydrogen Energy Solution for Remote Cold-Climate Open-Pit Mines

Contemporary off-grid mining operations rely on diesel fuel for the provision of their total energy including electricity, heat, and haulage. Given high cost its imposed greenhouse gas emissions, companies are looking more affordable cleaner sources operations. Although renewable systems, such as solar photovoltaic wind provide efficient solutions to address this challenge, full decarbonization has shown be very challenging, mainly due battery storage along with inability meet site demand. Integrating hydrogen thermal banks can facilitate a transitioning off diesel. In sense, present study intends offer an innovative decarbonized solution by integrating turbines multi-storage system (battery, hydrogen, storage) supply (electricity, haulage) remote open-pit mines. Among different proposed fully configurations in study, it is that hydrogen-powered fleet hybridized battery/hydrogen configuration most economically viable case mines considerably less life-of-mine cost.