--- title: LAVO Hydrogen Battery: The 200 Best Inventions of 2022 description: Find out why LAVO Hydrogen Battery is one of the best inventions of 2022 canonical: https://time.com/collections/best-inventions-2022/6229830/lavo-hydrogen-energy-storage-system/ article:content_tier: free article:published_time: 2022-11-10T11:20:25.000Z article:modified_time: 2026-03-03T00:09:47.888Z og:title: LAVO Hydrogen Battery: The 200 Best Inventions of 2022 og:description: Find out why LAVO Hydrogen Battery made this year's list og:url: https://time.com/collections/best-inventions-2022/6229830/lavo-hydrogen-energy-storage-system/ og:site_name: TIME og:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/bltc3940248401dd6ca/698a373d096a944d0c6ad23e/best-inventions-2022-lavo-hydrogen-battery-system.jpg?branch=production&width=3840&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=16:9 og:image:width: 1200 og:image:height: 675 og:image:alt: LAVO Hydrogen Battery: The 200 Best Inventions of 2022 og:type: article twitter:card: summary_large_image twitter:title: LAVO Hydrogen Battery: The 200 Best Inventions of 2022 twitter:description: Find out why LAVO Hydrogen Battery made this year's list twitter:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/bltc3940248401dd6ca/698a373d096a944d0c6ad23e/best-inventions-2022-lavo-hydrogen-battery-system.jpg?branch=production&width=3840&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=16:9 --- Nov 10, 2022 # A Better Home Battery LAVO Hydrogen Battery by [Alejandro de la Garza](https://time.com/author/alejandro-de-la-garza/) ## Alejandro de la Garza  LAVO Lithium-ion home battery systems to store rooftop solar energy have exploded in popularity in recent years. Australian startup [Lavo](https://lavo.com.au/) is betting that using hydrogen can help it do the job better. Its residential hydrogen battery converts solar power into hydrogen via an electrolyser and then outputs power via a fuel cell and the company says it can store three to four times more energy than a typical battery system. The first residential system of its kind and roughly the size of a [refrigerator](https://www.smh.com.au/environment/climate-change/world-s-first-domestic-hydrogen-battery-developed-by-australian-firm-20210120-p56vkd.html), the hydrogen battery requires a water line connection and can power an average sized home for about [two days](https://www.rechargenews.com/energy-transition/hydrogen-battery-start-up-says-it-has-700m-order-backlog-for-utility-scale-renewables-projects/2-1-1266148). Lavo has taken in more than $42 million in unit pre-orders, though it has yet to mass produce the technology, which it is also developing for a [utility-scale product](https://www.rechargenews.com/energy-transition/hydrogen-battery-start-up-says-it-has-700m-order-backlog-for-utility-scale-renewables-projects/2-1-1266148). ```json [{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"Article","@id":"https://time.com/collections/best-inventions-2022/6229830/lavo-hydrogen-energy-storage-system/","mainEntityOfPage":{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https://time.com/collections/best-inventions-2022/6229830/lavo-hydrogen-energy-storage-system/"},"headline":"A Better Home Battery","datePublished":"2022-11-10T11:20:25.000Z","dateModified":"2026-03-03T00:09:47.888Z","description":"","url":"https://time.com/collections/best-inventions-2022/6229830/lavo-hydrogen-energy-storage-system/","keywords":["list","franchise","ecommerce","best inventions","Best Inventions 2022"],"thumbnailUrl":"https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/bltc3940248401dd6ca/698a373d096a944d0c6ad23e/best-inventions-2022-lavo-hydrogen-battery-system.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=1200:675&height=675","author":[{"@type":"Person","name":"Alejandro de la Garza","jobTitle":null,"url":"https://time.com/author/alejandro-de-la-garza/"}],"creator":"Alejandro de la Garza","articleSection":"","image":[{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/bltc3940248401dd6ca/698a373d096a944d0c6ad23e/best-inventions-2022-lavo-hydrogen-battery-system.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=1200:675&height=675","width":1200,"height":675}],"publisher":{"@type":"Organization","name":"Time","url":"https://time.com/","logo":{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://time.com/images/logo.png","width":528,"height":156},"foundingDate":"March 3, 1923","sameAs":["https://www.facebook.com/time","https://www.instagram.com/time/?hl=en","https://twitter.com/time","https://www.pinterest.com/timemagazine"]}},{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"BreadcrumbList","itemListElement":[{"@type":"ListItem","position":1,"item":{"@id":"https://time.com/collections/best-inventions-2022/6229830/lavo-hydrogen-energy-storage-system/","name":"A Better Home Battery"}}]}] ```