AI agents envisioning the future: Forecast-based operation of renewable energy storage systems using hydrogen with Deep Reinforcement Learning

•H2 enables renewable energy storage for industrial CHP applications.•Automated energy management systems improve the operation of storage facilities.•Comparing approaches: Reinforcement Learning, Rule-based and Dynamic Programming.•Proof of feasibility: considering variable market prices with Reinforcement Learning.•Integrating price and energy forecasts improves results of Reinforcement Learning.