Hydrogen home stations come in different types.
- A solar powered water electrolysing hydrogen home station, is made of solar cells, power converter, water purifier, electrolyzer, piping, hydrogen purifier, oxygen purifier, compressor, pressure vessels and a hydrogen outlet.
- A more complete home station would combine the solar home system on the inlet with natural gas and a reformer and from the storage tank to a fuel cell microchp system to produce heat and electricity for the house and the excess electricity to the grid to become part as a distributed generation resource.
- Integrated systems that convert solar energy photoelectrochemically are more efficient than splitting water.
- January 2007 - Australia's CSIRO has developed a hydrogen homestation based on electricity from standard rooftop solar panels or a home wind turbine with an electrolyzer including compression and storage ready for use, the size of a filing cabinet, the expected market price would be $500 according to Sukhvinder Badwal. Extensive testing of the system will be going on for the next 2 years at RMIT University in Melbourne.
- Honda's Home Energy Station IV is in testing phase.
- American Hydrogen Energy station
- Horizon Fuel Cell Technologies HydroFILL is a hydrogen station intended to power small devices.
- The fuel cell charger is another hydrogen station to power mobile appliances
- ITM Power Green-box is a personal hydrogen station intended for the fueling of vehicles
- Daniel Nocera is also working on a personal hydrogen station
- Nico Hotz is also working on a personal hydrogen station; bio methanol is used to improve the efficiency of the solar panels.
- The Hopewell Project an oversized pilot homestation by Michael Strizki.
- The Chewonki Renewable Hydrogen Project opened on August 28, 2006 in Wiscasset, Maine.
- The Stuart Island Energy Initiative.
- The homefueler and HyStat-A Energy Station
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