US Patent Issued to Nuovo Pignone Tecnologie-S.R.L. on May 13 for "Power plant for generating electric power for an electric grid comprising an electrolyzer powered by the electric grid" (Italian Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,301,001, issued on May 13, was assigned to Nuovo Pignone Tecnologie-S.R.L. (Florence, Italy).

"Power plant for generating electric power for an electric grid comprising an electrolyzer powered by the electric grid" was invented by Marco Giancotti (Florence, Italy) and Tiziano Pellegrini (Florence, Italy).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The power plant generates electric power to be provided to an electric grid, the plant including a gas turbine, a steam turbine and one or more electrolyzers that uses electric power to generate hydrogen starting from water; the hydrogen is temporarily stored inside the power plant in a small tank. When powe...