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New Energy Innovation analysis shows the Treasury Department is considering a design flaw in its draft guidance for the 45V clean hydrogen production tax credit that could undermine its success, despite containing the “three pillars” approach required for truly clean electrolytic hydrogen. This analysis finds a “general carve-out” for exempting some share of existing clean energy from Treasury’s “incrementality” requirement would be disastrous for the tax credit’s integrity. For example, a 5 percent carve-out would allow for approximately 1.5 million metric tons (MMT) of dirty electrolytic hydrogen production per year, contributing roughly 30 to 60 MMT of CO2 emissions annually. …
View Full ResourceThis report unveils a unique and in-depth proposal to transform ideas into attractive investment projects. It highlights how policy and financial risk mitigation mechanisms play a critical role in slashing the funding gap and reducing the cost of hydrogen generation.
The findings promise to boost clean hydrogen lighthouse projects to revolutionize this multi-billion-dollar industry, so that emerging markets and developing countries can successfully participate in this nascent sector.…
The hype around using green or blue hydrogen as a decarbonization tool overlooks the fact that all hydrogen use can significantly increase global warming. How hydrogen is produced can have significant climate impacts. The push behind blue and green hydrogen as “clean” alternatives to grey hydrogen, produced using fossil fuels, overlooks that blue and green hydrogen production can generate even more greenhouse gas emissions than grey hydrogen.…
View Full ResourceThe hype around clean hydrogen as a decarbonization tool overlooks the fact that all hydrogen significantly increases global warming if it leaks into the atmosphere, and its use with natural gas does not substantively reduce greenhouse gas emissions. This two-page fact sheet outlines the potential global warming impacts of increased hydrogen use.…
View Full ResourceThe Global Hydrogen Review is an annual publication by the International Energy Agency that tracks hydrogen production and demand worldwide, as well as progress in critical areas such as infrastructure development, trade, policy, regulation, investments and innovation.
The report is an output of the Clean Energy Ministerial Hydrogen Initiative and is intended to inform energy sector stakeholders on the status and future prospects of hydrogen. Focusing on hydrogen’s potentially major role in meeting international energy and climate goals, the Review aims to help decision makers fine-tune strategies to attract investment and facilitate deployment of hydrogen technologies at the same time …
View Full ResourceThe objective of the NEA THAI-3 project was to address open questions concerning the behaviour of hydrogen, iodine and aerosols under severe accident conditions in the containment of water cooled reactors. Understanding the processes taking place during such events is essential to evaluating the challenge posed on containment integrity (due to hydrogen combustion) and for evaluating the amount of airborne radioactivity (iodine and aerosols) during such severe accidents. The project also aimed to contribute to the validation and further development of advanced codes used for reactor applications, e.g. by providing experimental data for code benchmark exercises.
The NEA THAI-3 project …
View Full ResourceAttitudes about a hydrogen economy vary dramatically. Some say that hydrogen is one of the most difficult substances to work with and most of what we hear is hype. Others claim that hydro gen holds enormous environmental and economic promise. In 2017 the Hydrogen Council offered a vision of the hydrogen economy for year 2050 with an annual income of $2.5 trillion dollars and 30 million new jobs. Unlike fossil fuels, when hydrogen is burned it produces water, not carbon dioxide (CO2). Hydrogen networks are being planned in Europe and large demonstration projects are underway in the United States and …
View Full ResourceThe urgent need to develop alternatives to fossil gas is underscored on a near-daily basis. To achieve ambitious decarbonization goals set forth by countries, states, municipalities and corporations, alternative fuels need to scale quickly. This report from Ameresco explores emerging alternatives to fossil gas including green hydrogen and biomethane, the latter of which is also known as renewable natural gas (RNG). RNG has the capacity to scale quickly, and it also has the potential to augment and support the development of green hydrogen.
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Current and future market prospects for RNG, including essential policy drivers
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Clean hydrogen is now clearly recognized as a potential breakthrough technology to overcome these limits. Hydrogen is a versatile molecule, which can be used directly via fuel cells or for electricity generation, and as feedstock to produce more suitable derivatives—such as ammonia, methanol, or sustainable aviation fuels (SAF)—to specific industrial and transport applications.
Deloitte’s outlook, leveraging a data-driven and model-based quantitative analysis, explores the emergence of a carbon-neutral, inclusive clean hydrogen economy in the coming years. This outlook relies on Deloitte’s Hydrogen Pathway Explorer (HyPE) model and proposes a vision for a fast-tracked development of the clean hydrogen economy, highlighting …
View Full ResourceProducing hydrogen in a carbon-neutral manner is challenging (and potentially
expensive), but the many colorful means of producing hydrogen provide exciting
opportunities. Once available, it can be used in almost every vertical in the energy
space — ranging from power generation to energy storage to e-fuels production for
aviation and heavy road and rail transport, to cement and steel production, as well
as in applications in other carbon-intensive industries.
The regulatory framework for the production and use of hydrogen has taken
a number of favorable turns over the past year, which has resulted in projects
that were interesting in concept …