Tashkent, Uzbekistan (UzDaily.com) -- Remote territories can be supplied with electricity through autonomous hydrogen power plants. The experience of SovTest (Russia) in this direction was presented in Tashkent at the INNOPROM 2021 exhibition by Denis Urmanov, Deputy General Director.

His speech on 6 April at the session "Innovations in Energy" began with a conversation about climatic changes, which are expressed in an atypical winter that Europe experienced this year, abnormal cold weather in the central part of Russia, frost that damaged the blossoming flowers of apricot trees in Uzbekistan and many others. signs of atypical weather conditions experienced by countries around the world.

“The opinion of most scientists is that this is most likely due to the accumulation of the greenhouse effect, the influence of CO2 on the atmosphere of our planet is obvious, because of this a sharp rise in temperature, melting of ice, a change in the balance of fresh water and salt water of the ocean. As a result, the Arctic cold, which used to be in the Arctic, is being transferred to other regions. Most scientists believe that it is only possible to combat this by reducing the greenhouse effect and CO2. The answer is obvious - this can be dealt with the help of hydrogen energy, nothing better has been invented yet,” D. Urmanov noted.

It is no coincidence that his presentation was titled "Hydrogen Energy to Combat CO2". According to the speaker, the future in many respects lies with hydrogen energy; it is no coincidence that most countries are working in this direction.

“So in China there are serious plans to transfer most of the transport to hydrogen by 2030, in Germany last year a special program for the development of hydrogen energy was adopted and by 2050 the Germans plan to make their economy decarbonized, that is, they completely refuse from diesel fuel, diesel, everywhere there will be hydrogen, wind, sun. In Korea, by 2040, there will be more than a million units of transport on hydrogen, in the USA in 2020 a modern production of trucks on hydrogen was opened,” Urmanov said.

An example was also given of Singaporean developers who created a 200 kW hydrogen plant, which uses hydrogen, which is generated during the operation of an oil refinery and previously simply escaped into the atmosphere.

During the presentation, examples of developments by the Russian company itself were given, in particular, a project to create a hybrid power plant, which will include a wind generator, solar panels, and a hydrogen plant. This project is proposed for consideration, including by partners in Uzbekistan.

In Russia itself, according to the speaker, serious attention is also paid to this topic. "Last year, a special government decree was adopted on the development of hydrogen energy in Russia until 2024."

During the session "Innovations in Energy" of the business program of the "INNOPROM" exhibition, experts from Uzbekistan and Russia discussed the transformation of the energy industry under the influence of climate change, increased consumer requirements, the development of distributed energy and high technologies. 

It was noted that today is the time when traditional technologies of energy production are being improved and at the same time alternative methods of energy production are being mastered.