Storagen
Storagen aims to stabilize the cost of electricity and hydrogen by providing a long-term energy storage solution for our customers. We achieve this by storing large quantities of hydrogen in depleted hydrocarbon reservoirs, repurposing existing, depreciated infrastructure.
Our Technology
The first step toward commercialization is validation of the technical mechanics of underground hydrogen storage. To date, we have developed the concept through extensive literature review and analysis of international pilot projects. We are now ready to advance to the next phase by conducting a full-scale pilot to replicate the conditions of a commercial system. This will involve modifying a depleted hydrocarbon well, cycling hydrogen in and out of the reservoir, and performing a range of tests to evaluate performance and outcomes.
How it Works
We offer customers a solution for long-term energy storage through technology that utilizes naturally occurring geological features for industrial-scale, underground hydrogen storage. By repurposing existing, depreciated infrastructure and leveraging detailed geological data from hydrocarbon drilling, our systems create storage capacities that are orders of magnitude greater than above ground storage systems.
Scale
A single depleted reservoir is expected to store as much as 300 GWh of dispatchable clean energy. To put this in perspective, it would take more than 40,000 shipping containers of lithium-ion batteries to produce the equivalent megawatt-hours of energy that one hydrogen reservoir can store. A single well at this capacity would store the equivalent of California’s monthly curtailed energy. This will allow us and our customers to capture energy when demand is low (price is low), convert this energy to hydrogen, store the hydrogen long term, and extract it when demand is high.
Technical Application
01
Renewable Energy Producers
Enhance grid stability, unlock the potential of renewables by mitigating intermittency issues
02
Critical Computing
Improve resilience by providing industrial and backup energy storage
03
Ammonia and Steel Manufacturing
Provide a reliable, supply of green hydrogen for industrial uses
Team
How we got started
Storagen was founded after the huge potential and opportunity that exists in Wyoming was identified. Charlie Thomas, board member of a climate action non-profit based in Jackson formed connections with both the University of Wyoming and members of the DOE. Through this network the potential was identified and Storagen was founded in December of 2025. Today we are a team of Phd scientists, experienced entrepreneurs and experienced business professionals.
Team Members
Eugene Holubnyak
Holubnyak has established himself as an expert in subsurface geological storage, with 14 years of experience in applied geoscience and energy-related research. He is now the Director of the Hydrogen Energy Research Center at the University of Wyoming where he leads applied research and collaborates with stakeholders to support the development of the hydrogen industry.
Charlie Thomas
An enthusiastic proponent of climate action, Charles Thomas originally united the Storagen team through his commitment to environmental initiatives. He holds a Geology degree from Middlebury College and is a member of the Teton Resilience Network's board of directors. Since 1986, he has served as the founder and proprietor of Magpie Furniture, a custom furniture manufacturer in Jackson Hole, Wyoming.
Charles Nye
Charles Nye is a Senior Research Professional and Project Manager specializing in Geochemistry at the University of Wyoming, School of Energy Resources. He has lead U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) field-scale pilot projects including a produced water desalinization project which can supply hydrogen or clean water for the arid western United States. Additionally, Nye has led or been part of seven CarbonSAFE Projects and various commercial projects utilizing geologic and natural resources.
Dayana Jones
Dayana Jones is an Assistant Research Professional in the Hydrogen Energy Research Center at the School of Energy Resources. In addition to her role in H2ERC, she is concurrently working on her Ph.D. in Economics at UW. Jones has an abundance of knowledge and training in analyzing emerging markets, and has cultivated an area of specialization in economic rationale and decision making. At SER, she conducts techno-economic analyses, and assesses developing market behaviors.
Haoming Ma
Dr. Haoming Ma is a research scientist and principal investigator at the Hydrogen Energy Research Center in the University of Wyoming. Prior to that, he was a post-doctoral fellow at the Center for Energy & Environmental Systems Analysis, at the University of Texas at Austin. Dr. Ma received his Ph.D in Chemical and Petroleum Engineering from the University of Calgary in 2023. His work addresses the interdisciplinary challenges of understanding the technological, economic, and environmental trade-offs within geo-energy systems. He delivers technical, socioeconomic, and policy insights that advance a secure, affordable, and sustainable energy future. To date, his research contributions have led to ~20 publications in top-tier journals.
Sarah Buckhold
Sarah Buckhold is an Assistant Research Professional in the Hydrogen Energy Research Center at the School of Energy Resources. She completed her Ph.D. in the Department of Mechanical Engineering at the University of Wyoming focusing on atmospheric modeling with applications in wind energy. Since joining UW SER, she has worked extensively on Wyoming energy research projects, has since expanded her Ph.D. work by using modeling to explore stranded Wyoming wind energy as a resource to power an off-grid hydrogen station, and is active in geologic hydrogen research.
Robert Cincotta
Robert Cincotta is an Assistant Research Professional in the Hydrogen Energy Research Center at the School of Energy Resources. Joining the SER team in 2024, he has spent the early portion of his SER position as a guest scientist at Los Alamos National Lab. Cincotta has produced research on carbon engineering, the carbon core, critical mineral and rare earth elements (CORE-CM) projects. His dissertation was on the production of carbon nanofibers from coal-derived polymers for use as electrodes in energy storage devices, and the use of machine learning techniques to inform optimization of this process.
Sheida Sheikheh
Sheida Sheikheh is a Ph.D. candidate at the Energy and Petroleum Engineering Department at the University of Wyoming. Prior to that, Sheikheh obtained her Master of Engineering from the University of North Dakota where she worked on hydrogen storage in salt caverns. At UW Sheikheh researches various potential underground hydrogen storage media including depleted hydrocarbon reservoirs and trona deposits.
Yara Thomas
Yara Thomas has over a decade of experience in systems engineering and process integration and holds dual masters in Architectural, Systems Engineering and Environment & Natural Resources from the University of Wyoming as well as a MBA from IESE University where she is focused on finance and entrepreneurship. Following graduation from her MBA program in May 2026 Yara will be Storagens first full time employee.
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