Full Title: HyBuild Los Angeles Phase 2 Report
Author(s): Janice Lin, Lily Backer, Dhruv Bhatnagar, Collin Smith, Nicholas Connell, Erin Childs, Hope Fasching, Maggie Field, Shawn Carr, Jennifer Gorman, Nina Hebel, and Jordan Ahern
Publisher(s): Green Hydrogen Coalition
Publication Date: March 23, 2023
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Description (excerpt):
Green hydrogen (GH₂) is an essential resource to mitigate climate change by decarbonizing hard-to-electrify sectors, such as maritime shipping, aviation, heavy-duty trucking, firm dispatchable power, high-heat industrial processes, and agriculture. In light of the current war in Ukraine and the surging fossil fuel energy prices around the world, GH₂ can also be a resource to support energy cost stability and greater global energy security. Moreover, GH₂ can support a just and equitable clean energy transition by helping to reduce environmental burdens, while creating family-sustaining job opportunities across sectors.
The United States has reached a pivotal moment for the GH₂ market. The federal government passed two landmark laws – the
Infrastructure Investment and Jobs Act (IIJA) and the Inflation Reduction Act (IRA) – which together enable $479 billion in new climate and energy spending. Near-term opportunities are driving swift action from the private and public sectors alike, including the $8 billion Department of Energy (DOE) funding opportunity for regional clean hydrogen (H₂) hubs. Beyond these near-term grants and incentives, driving a market for GH₂ production and use at scale will require unprecedented collaboration across sectors, innovation in technology and policy, new and expanded regulatory and permitting frameworks, and inclusivity.
HyBuild North America™ is the Green Hydrogen Coalition’s (GHC) collaborative platform to architect mass-scale GH₂ hubs across the continent. Los Angeles was selected as the first focus region due to its abundance of large-scale offtakers, forward thinking local leadership, robust decarbonization policies, and ample renewable energy resources for GH₂ production. HyBuild LA set out to determine if it is commercially and technically possible to create a mass-scale GH₂ ecosystem that displaces fossil fuels across multiple sectors. The results of HyBuild LA represent a high-level vision and scenario, but the GHC recognizes that a variety of pathways may be pursued to achieve decarbonization in the future. The ultimate roadmap for LA and California will require significant additional research and stakeholder engagement with local communities.