Hybrid Green Technologies. Up until now – on this website, anyway – we’ve been looking at individual green technologies. But now it really begins to get interesting, and highly creative as well, as we begin to look at how these various technologies can function in partnership with each other. In combinations of two and even three. Start to think where you can splice together innovative combinations like this in your city. “Solar-Hydro-Wind Combination”. www.sinovoltaics.com . “Hydro-Floating Solar Hybrid at Sirindhorn Dam, EGAT” (Thailand). www.youtube.com. “Floating Power Plant – Invest in the Future”. www.floatingpowerplant.com This hybrid combines wind and wave power in Denmark. “10 Findings on the Growth of Hybrid Power Plants”. www.renewableenergyworld.com 5/10/22. “Renewable Hybrid Energy Systems as a Game Changer in India”. www.mckinsey.com 9/10/19. “USAID, NREL Help Ghana Develop First Hydro-Solar Plant in West Africa”. www.renewableenergyworld.com 6/4/22. “EDP Inaugurates Floating Solar Park in Alqueva Pumped Storage Reservoir”. www.renewableenergyworld.com 7/26/22. (Alqueva is in Portugal). “Wind and Solar Are Better Together”. www.scientificamerican.com 12/5/16. Building turbines and photovoltaics at the same location can reduce grid and battery costs and level out power supply. “Goldwind Gullen Solar and Wind Farm”. (near Sydney, Australia) www.balanceservicesgroup.com.au “Hybrid Home: Solar & Wind Renewable Energy Systems”. www.buildwithrise.com 6/16/20. “French Startup Reveals Rooftop System With PV Panels, Mini Wind Turbines”. www.pv-magazine-india.com 11/16/22. This article describes a hybrid rooftop renewable energy system that combines solar with vertical axis wind turbines. “PG&E, Energy Vault Plan Largest US Utility-scale Battery, Green Hydrogen Long-duration Storage Project”. www.utilitydive.com 1/6/23. “LAVO Green Energy Hydrogen Battery”. www.good-design.org/projects/lavo-green-energy-hydrogen-battery/ The LAVO Green Energy Storage System, from Australia, acts as a solar sponge, integrating with rooftop solar to capture and store renewable energy, in the form of green hydrogen, for use when it is needed. It is the world’s first integrated hybrid hydrogen battery that combines with rooftop solar to deliver a sustainable, reliant, and renewable green energy source for residential and commercial properties. The system works by using electrolysis to split water into oxygen and hydrogen. It was selected by TIME Magazine for inclusion in its “Best Inventions 2022” edition. See also the hybrid solar & wind rooftop systems developed by Ibis Power, called PowerNest. “Innovative Renewable Energy Solution on Rooftop in Eindhoven” (in The Netherlands). 3/8/23. www.thesocialhub.co and www.ibispower.eu
