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Clean ways to make and use Hydrogen for power generation will be critical to replace conventional methods of power production that use petroleum-based products.
The industry prevailing understanding is that hydrogen is essential to meet global decarbonization goals by 2025 across industries. The International Renewable Energy Agency (IRENA) estimates that by 2050, clean hydrogen could meet 12 percent of energy consumption, and could abate seven gigatons of CO2 emissions annually. If these projections are true, both hydrogen production and hydrogen power plants are necessary to produce green renewable electricity while still maintaining a reliable grid.…
View Full ResourceGiven its potential to help address the climate crisis, enhance energy security and resilience, and create economic value, interest in producing and using clean hydrogen is intensifying both in the United States and abroad. Zero- and low-carbon hydrogen is a key part of a comprehensive portfolio of solutions to achieve a sustainable and equitable clean energy future. The United States is stepping up to accelerate progress through historic investments in clean hydrogen production, midstream infrastructure, and strategically targeted research, development, demonstration, and deployment (RDD&D) in this critical technology.
This report sets forth the “U.S. National Clean Hydrogen Strategy and Roadmap.” …
View Full ResourceHydrogen is an energy carrier, fuel, and chemical feedstock that can enable
decarbonization across multiple sectors of the US economy. The US Department of Energy’s
(DOE) H2Hubs program is set to support the growth of clean hydrogen over the coming decades, jumpstarting clean hydrogen projects at regional hubs across the country. Hydrogen production must quickly scale beyond these initial hubs to reach the DOE’s targets of 10 million metric tons of clean hydrogen by 2030, 20 million metric tons by 2040,
and 50 million metric tons by 2050.
This report examines regional opportunities for clean hydrogen hubs and considers the …
View Full ResourceHydrogen is an energy carrier, fuel, and chemical feedstock that can enable decarbonization across multiple sectors of the US economy. The US Department of Energy’s (DOE) H2Hubs program is set to support the growth of clean hydrogen over the coming decades, jumpstarting clean hydrogen projects at regional hubs across the country. Hydrogen production must quickly scale beyond these initial hubs to reach the DOE’s targets of 10 million metric tons of clean hydrogen by 2030, 20 million metric tons by 2040, and 50 million metric tons by 2050.
This report examines regional opportunities for clean hydrogen hubs and considers the …
View Full ResourceGreen hydrogen, produced using electrolysis and renewable electricity, can play a unique and critical role in decarbonizing high-heat industrial processes, such as manufacturing steel, chemicals, and cement. According to the Renewable Thermal Vision Report published by the Renewable Thermal Collaborative, blue and green hydrogen can supply approximately 13% of U.S. industrial process heat by 2050. In the United States, recent federal legislation, including the Infrastructure Investment and Jobs Act and the Inflation Reduction Act, has put meaningful policy and billions of dollars of funding behind the push for clean hydrogen, including investment in research, development, and demonstration (RD&D) and tax …
View Full ResourceThis report assesses the greenhouse gas emissions intensity of the different hydrogen production routes and reviews ways to use the emissions intensity of hydrogen production in the development of regulation and certification schemes. An internationally agreed emissions accounting framework is a way to move away from the use of terminologies based on colours or other terms that have proved impractical for the contracts that underpin investment. The adoption of such a framework can bring much-needed transparency, as well as facilitating interoperability and limiting market fragmentation, thus becoming a useful enabler of investments for the development of international hydrogen supply chains.…
View Full ResourceUnderpinned by a global shift towards decarbonization, hydrogen is gaining significance as an energy vector, especially for high-emission sectors that do not use electricity directly. Most organizations in our research believe that low-carbon hydrogen will be a long-term contributor to achieving emissions and sustainability goals.
With government support, declining renewable-energy costs, rapid technological advances, and a growing focus on decarbonization and sustainable energy solutions, the demand for low-carbon hydrogen is expected to increase multifold. Sectors with traditional hydrogen applications, particularly in petroleum refining, chemicals and fertilizers, and steel, have high potential for adoption of low-carbon hydrogen. Demand for hydrogen in …
View Full ResourceLow-carbon hydrogen production has become an important component of many plans for reducing economy-wide greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions, including in the electricity sector. Hydrogen can be a valuable resource to decarbonize hard-to-electrify sectors of the economy, such as high-heat industrial processes and medium- and heavy-duty transportation. Power generation from hydrogen can also provide firm zero-carbon capacity to the electric grid. The attention paid to hydrogen has only increased in the United States since the passage of the Inflation Reduction Act (IRA) in 2022, which included a 10-year Production Tax Credit (PTC) for clean hydrogen (45V) produced with less than 4 …
View Full ResourceThe United States cannot achieve net-zero greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions without carbon-free hydrogen. Today, this molecule serves the chemicals and refining industries, and fossil fuel-derived hydrogen production contributes about 1.5 percent of total U.S. climate pollution. Shifting to cleaner hydrogen production can replace these dirty sources while cutting GHG emissions in industries that are hard or impossible to electrify. Congress included a production tax credit (PTC) for clean hydrogen in Section 45V of the Inflation Reduction Act (IRA) to help scale the nascent industry. The tax credit’s value is tied to the lifecycle GHG emissions of hydrogen production—including upstream emissions—with …
View Full ResourceThese Pathways to Commercial Liftoff reports aim to establish a common fact base and ongoing dialogue with the private sector around the path to commercial liftoff for critical clean energy technologies. Their goal is to catalyze more rapid and coordinated action across the full technology value chain.
The U.S. clean hydrogen market is poised for rapid growth, accelerated by Hydrogen Hub funding, multiple tax credits under the Inflation Reduction Act (IRA) including the hydrogen production tax credit (PTC), DOE’s Hydrogen Shot, and decarbonization goals across the public and private sectors. Hydrogen can play a role in decarbonizing up to 25% …
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