As a kind of high-quality secondary energy, hydrogen has great potential of application in energy storage and utilization and contributes to consumption of renewable energy in electric power systems. To further increase the proportion of renewable energy in primary energy consumption, this article introduces a hydrogen energy system for renewable energy consumption. In this article, significance and necessity of developing hydrogen energy system are elaborated, the overall structure of hydrogen energy system is presented, key technologies involved with hydrogen system are listed, economical efficiency of hydrogen energy system is analyzed, and development of hydrogen energy system in the future is forecasted.
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