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Interest in hydrogen has risen markedly over the last two years. Governments have announced national roadmaps and strategies to scale-up hydrogen, with increasing recognition of its potential to replace fossil fuels in ‘hard-to-abate’ areas of the economy, such as in heavy industry and transport. Green hydrogen (H2), produced using decarbonized electricity and water through a process called electrolysis, is a particularly attractive option and set to grow significantly in the transition to a net-zero future.
As this paper will outline, ambitious growth in green H2 will significantly increase global demand for clean electricity. Coupling green H2 with renewable power offers …
The transition to a low-carbon energy system will likely shake up the geopolitical status quo that has governed global energy systems for over a century. Policymakers need to rethink the role their country could play in a new energy world.
Renewables are widely perceived as an opportunity to shatter the hegemony of fossil fuel-rich states and democratize the energy landscape. Virtually all countries have access to some renewable energy resources (especially solar and wind power) and could thus substitute foreign supply with local resources. Our research shows, however, that the role countries are likely to assume in decarbonized energy systems …
View Full ResourceIn its new report Making the Hydrogen Economy Possible: Accelerating clean hydrogen in an electrified economy, the ETC outlines the role of clean hydrogen in achieving a highly electrified net-zero economy. The report sets out how a combination of private-sector collaboration and policy support can drive the initial ramp up of clean hydrogen production and use to reach 50 million tonnes by 2030.
Clean hydrogen will play a complementary role to decarbonize sectors where direct electrification is likely to be technologically very challenging or prohibitively expensive, such as in steel production and long-distance shipping. The report highlights how critical rapid …
View Full ResourceThe urgency of reaching net-zero emissions requires a rapid acceleration in the deployment of all emissions reducing technologies. Near-zero emissions hydrogen (clean hydrogen) has the potential to make a significant contribution to emissions reduction in the power generation, transportation, and industrial sectors.
As part of the Circular Carbon Economy: Keystone to Global Sustainability series with the Center on Global Energy Policy at Columbia University SIPA, this report explores the potential contribution of blue hydrogen to climate mitigation.
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Cost drivers for renewable hydrogen and hydrogen produced with fossil fuels and CCS;
Resource requirements and cost reduction opportunities
Some in Congress have proposed hydrogen as an environmentally superior alternative to conventional fossil fuels for vehicles and power generation, among other applications. Delivering hydrogen to scattered facilities—such as power plants, industrial sites, and fuel distribution hubs—would require an expansive hydrogen pipeline network. Accordingly, the House Select Committee on the Climate Crisis 2020 majority staff report recommended that Congress draft legislation to facilitate the development of hydrogen infrastructure, and that federal agencies create an associated plan and change their regulatory framework to support it. The House Appropriations Committee report on the Energy and Water Development Appropriations Bill, 2021 (H.Rept. 116-449) …
View Full ResourceThe European Union set a 2050 decarbonization target in the Paris Agreement to reduce carbon emissions by 90–95% relative to 1990 emission levels. The path toward achieving those deep decarbonization targets can take various shapes but will surely include a portfolio of economy-wide low-carbon energy technologies/options. The growth of the intermittent renewable power sources in the grid mix has helped reduce the carbon footprint of the electric power sector. Under the need for decarbonizing the electric power sector, we simulated a low-carbon power system. We investigated the role of hydrogen for future electric power systems under current cost projections. The …
View Full ResourceThis report examines decarbonized hydrogen in the U.S. power and industrial sectors and which incentives can be used to lower emissions. Tax credits could make hydrogen energy more competitive in the US industrial and power sectors, but reductions in production and storage costs and expansion of transportation infrastructure are necessary to achieve zero-carbon hydrogen use.…
View Full ResourceThis report examines tax credits that could make hydrogen energy more competitive in the US industrial and power sectors, and asserts that reductions in production and storage costs and expansion of transportation infrastructure are necessary to decarbonizing hydrogen.…
View Full ResourceThis report from the International Renewable Energy Agency (IRENA) discusses green hydrogen cost reduction and outlines strategies to reduce electrolyser costs through continuous innovation, performance improvements and upscaling from megawatt (MW) to multi-gigawatt (GW) levels.…
View Full ResourceThis article indicates the importance of joint planning of electricity and hydrogen infrastructure for cost-effective energy system decarbonization.…
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