Decarbonized Hydrogen in the US Power and Industrial Sectors: Identifying and Incentivizing Opportunities to Lower Emissions

This 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.…

Decarbonizing Hydrogen in the US Power and Industrial Sectors: Identifying and Incentivizing Opportunities to Lower Emissions

This 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.…

Green hydrogen cost reduction: Scaling up renewables to meet the 1.5 C climate goal

This 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.…

Decarbonization synergies from joint planning of electricity and hydrogen production: A Texas case study

This article indicates the importance of joint planning of electricity and hydrogen infrastructure for cost-effective energy system decarbonization.…

Green hydrogen: A guide to policy making

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 …

Cross-Cutting: Hydrogen

Hydrogen 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 …

Investment Tax Credits for Hydrogen Storage

Hydrogen 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 …

Hydrogen’s Decarbonization Impact for Industry

When 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.…

Prospects for Hydrogen in the Future Energy System

Hydrogen 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 …

The Fuel Cell and Hydrogen Industries: 10 Trends to Watch

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.…