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This green hydrogen report from the International Renewable Energy Agency (IRENA) outlines the main barriers that inhibiting green hydrogen uptake and the policies needed to address these. It also offers insights on how to kickstart the green hydrogen sector as a key enabler of the energy transition at the national or regional level.
Hydrogen produced with renewable energy sources – or “green” hydrogen – has emerged as a key element to achieve net-zero emissions from heavy industry and transport. Along with net-zero commitments by growing numbers of governments, green hydrogen has started gaining momentum based on low-cost renewable electricity, ongoing …
View Full ResourceHydrogen is enjoying unprecedented momentum across the world. This is raising expectations that it may finally meet its longstanding promise of making a substantial contribution to a lower-carbon energy future, as envisaged in many countries. Tremendous interest is growing among governments, industry and other stakeholders, who consider hydrogen to be a fundamental piece of a clean, secure and affordable energy system.
Adopting a new clean fuel like low-carbon hydrogen is a challenging endeavor that has to overcome significant barriers beyond economics. The need for hydrogen infrastructure is a bottleneck preventing widespread adoption. It can be overcome by using existing infrastructure …
View Full ResourceHydrogen in the Energy Storage Tax Incentive and Deployment Act of 2019
The Energy Storage Tax Incentive and Deployment Act of 2019, introduced by Representative Mike Doyle as H.R. 2096 and by Senator Martin Heinrich as S. 1142, would have extended the 30 percent energy investment tax credit to energy storage technologies, “equipment which receives, stores, and delivers energy.” With hydrogen among the technologies specified, the act would have had the potential to (1) motivate the utilization of hydrogen to store and deliver power and (2) reduce carbon dioxide (CO2) emissions from hydrogen production. This tax credit was not included …
View Full ResourceWhen considering what a global energy system on a 1.5°C or 2°C pathway will look like by 2050, hydrogen consistently plays a critical role as a low-carbon fuel. In fact, for several industrial application areas, there are no other viable pathways to decarbonization.
Our report, Hydrogen’s Decarbonization Impact for Industry: Near-term Challenges and Long-term Potential, highlights the immediate decarbonization potential of hydrogen as an alternative to fossil fuels in some industrial processes.…
View Full ResourceHydrogen is a high quality energy carrier that could be produced at global scale, via
thermochemical processing of hydrocarbons, such as natural gas, coal or biomass, or water
electrolysis using any source of electricity including renewables, such as wind or solar, or
nuclear power. Hydrogen is receiving renewed attention driven by growing concerns about
climate change, air quality and integration of variable renewable energy into the energy system.
Recent energy/economic studies suggest that hydrogen and fuel cells could be important
technologies for simultaneously addressing these challenges in a future renewable-intensive, low
carbon energy system. In this paper, we review the …
This white paper looks at some of the major trends that Navigant Research sees happening over the next 12 months, potentially longer. The trends were generated from Navigant Research’s analysis of the fuel cell and hydrogen industries as well as research into the sectors in which fuel cells compete, including combined heat and power (CHP) generation, energy storage, and electric transportation.…
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A fact sheet from the FreedomCAR and Fuel Partnership on hydrogen production.…
View Full ResourceHydrogen FCVs are a potential option for reducing emissions from the transportation sector. Combusting fossil fuels to power conventional vehicles releases GHG emissions and other pollutants from the vehicle exhaust system (i.e., “tailpipe” emissions). In addition, there are also emissions associated with producing petroleum-based fuels (i.e., “upstream” emissions), notably emissions from oil refineries. FCVs emit no tailpipe GHGs or other pollutants during vehicle operation, and depending on how hydrogen is produced, there can be substantially lower upstream GHG emissions associated with producing hydrogen fuel.…
View Full ResourceProducing jet fuel that meets MIL-DTL-5624 JP5 specification at sea utilizing carbon and hydrogen sources available in seawater is envisioned. In-theater, fuel synthesis is a “game changing” proposition that would offer the Navy significant logistical and operational advantages by reducing dependence on increasingly expensive fossil fuels and by reducing fuel logistic tails and their vulnerabilities.
Technologies currently exist to synthesize hydrocarbon fuel on land, given sufficient primary energy resources such as coal and natural gas [1,2]. Most of these technologies are not CO2 neutral, and they are not practical for a sea-based operation.…
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