Meet Mike Strizki’s Hydrogen House

Mike Strizki has an extraordinary house.

His house is powered entirely by solar panels, which are installed nearly everywhere; he has roughly a hundred panels on his rooftop, ground, and mobile appliances all around his 12-acre compound. Since 2006, he stopped purchasing electricity from the grid.

He also houses 11 hydrogen tanks in the nearby Hopewell woods that can store enough energy during winter.

When Hurricane Sandy hit, Strizki’s house continued to power on while his neighbors’ all went out, even those with solar panels but no storage capacity.

He notes, however, that the upfront cost of the solar and storage systems, which range from $60,000 to $90,000 even after rebates and credits, is not something most households can afford.

Strizki has sold about $4 million worth of the systems designed to endure harsh weather, but wealth is not what he’s after. What he is doing, he says, is for his future generations.

Source and Read More 

If you want to know more about this and other topics directly from end users of energy storage technologies join us at one of these annual events: The Energy Storage World Forum (Grid Scale Applications), or The Residential Energy Storage Forum, or one of our Training Courses.

LATEST ARTICLES

Energy Storage Systems: the role of an Integrator

Simplifying BESS deployments by mastering their associated risks With the introduction of Battery Energy Storage Systems ‘BESS’, a new role has been created on the value chain. It is the role of a BESS integrator. The role of an integrator can be misunderstood at times or blended with other roles at other times. This is…

Read More

Product Development: Embracing product safety and compliance

PRODUCT DEVELOPMENT: EMBRACING PRODUCT SAFETY AND COMPLIANCE Recent safety incidents on storage plants have raised concerns about the fire safety of battery storage systems. Such events are extremely rare compared to the cumulated global deployments of energy storage systems, which have reached more than 27 GWh by end of 2020 (Wood Mackenzie 2021). However, for…

Read More

★REVIEWS

“Probably the most interactive and well organized storage event on the calendar.”

★★★★★

Sales Director, S&C

“Great topics, competent speakers, good networking: keep it like that.”

★★★★★

TLC & SCADA Manager, FRI-EL

“High scientific content, well targeted, perfect organization.”

★★★★★

Expert Technical & Governance, Elia

Excellent networking event. The sponsorship was well worth it.”

★★★★★

Manager, ATL

View More

x