What Do National Hydrogen Strategies Tell Us About Potential Future Trade?

As of April 2024, 58 national hydrogen strategies and roadmaps have been published, while many other countries have mentioned targets. A few strategies (Germany, France, Japan) have already been updated. Most strategies position their country in terms of future trade, including whether the nation is seeking importer or exporter status, the trade medium (whether the product imported or exported will be in the form of hydrogen or a hydrogen derivative), and the value, ranking, or economic benefits the nations expect to achieve. This piece is a comparative analysis of the strategies published, focused on these trade-related aspects. It utilizes CGEP’s …

Alaska Hydrogen Opportunities Report

Hydrogen has recently received significant attention at the national and international levels due to its decarbonization potential in numerous economic sectors. As a piece of the clean energy solution puzzle, it offers spatial and temporal flexibility in the use of energy sources that might otherwise pose challenges in their locations and times of output. This inaugural report on Alaska’s hydrogen energy opportunities introduces key themes for developing a hydrogen economy in Alaska, establishes a baseline understanding of Alaska’s infrastructure and resources relevant to hydrogen, and contextualizes this baseline in terms of national and global initiatives focused on hydrogen. This report …

45V Exemptions Need Strong Guardrails To Protect Climate, Grow Hydrogen Industry

New Energy Innovation analysis shows the Treasury Department is considering a design flaw in its draft guidance for the 45V clean hydrogen production tax credit that could undermine its success, despite containing the “three pillars” approach required for truly clean electrolytic hydrogen. This analysis finds a “general carve-out” for exempting some share of existing clean energy from Treasury’s “incrementality” requirement would be disastrous for the tax credit’s integrity. For example, a 5 percent carve-out would allow for approximately 1.5 million metric tons (MMT) of dirty electrolytic hydrogen production per year, contributing roughly 30 to 60 MMT of CO2 emissions annually. …

Scaling Hydrogen Financing for Development

This report unveils a unique and in-depth proposal to transform ideas into attractive investment projects. It highlights how policy and financial risk mitigation mechanisms play a critical role in slashing the funding gap and reducing the cost of hydrogen generation.
The findings promise to boost clean hydrogen lighthouse projects to revolutionize this multi-billion-dollar industry, so that emerging markets and developing countries can successfully participate in this nascent sector.…

Building Stronger Community Engagement in Hydrogen Hubs

Building Stronger Community Engagement in Hydrogen Hubs (February 2024) is a factbook reporting the results of a survey of nearly 5,000 respondents from disadvantaged, tribal, labor, and environmental justice communities on their attitudes toward hydrogen hubs and community engagement. It contributes to ongoing efforts by communities, hydrogen hub developers, and the U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) to align on community engagement approaches and best practices for DOE’s $7 billion Regional Clean Hydrogen Hubs (H2Hubs) program. The factbook gives insight into communities’ preferred modes of engagement with hydrogen developers, their attitudes toward hydrogen hubs, and their perceptions of DOE’s community engagement …

Blue and Green Hydrogen Production

The hype around using green or blue hydrogen as a decarbonization tool overlooks the fact that all hydrogen use can significantly increase global warming. How hydrogen is produced can have significant climate impacts. The push behind blue and green hydrogen as “clean” alternatives to grey hydrogen, produced using fossil fuels, overlooks that blue and green hydrogen production can generate even more greenhouse gas emissions than grey hydrogen.…

Hydrogen’s Global Warming Impacts

The hype around clean hydrogen as a decarbonization tool overlooks the fact that all hydrogen significantly increases global warming if it leaks into the atmosphere, and its use with natural gas does not substantively reduce greenhouse gas emissions. This two-page fact sheet outlines the potential global warming impacts of increased hydrogen use.…

Global Hydrogen Review 2023

The Global Hydrogen Review is an annual publication by the International Energy Agency that tracks hydrogen production and demand worldwide, as well as progress in critical areas such as infrastructure development, trade, policy, regulation, investments and innovation.

The report is an output of the Clean Energy Ministerial Hydrogen Initiative and is intended to inform energy sector stakeholders on the status and future prospects of hydrogen. Focusing on hydrogen’s potentially major role in meeting international energy and climate goals, the Review aims to help decision makers fine-tune strategies to attract investment and facilitate deployment of hydrogen technologies at the same time …

Fission Product Behaviour, Hydrogen Mitigation, and Hydrogen Combustion in Water Cooled Reactors Under Severe Accident Conditions

The objective of the NEA THAI-3 project was to address open questions concerning the behaviour of hydrogen, iodine and aerosols under severe accident conditions in the containment of water cooled reactors. Understanding the processes taking place during such events is essential to evaluating the challenge posed on containment integrity (due to hydrogen combustion) and for evaluating the amount of airborne radioactivity (iodine and aerosols) during such severe accidents. The project also aimed to contribute to the validation and further development of advanced codes used for reactor applications, e.g. by providing experimental data for code benchmark exercises.

The NEA THAI-3 project …

Five Hydrogen Myths – Busted

Hydrogen produced from renewable electricity is a breakthrough climate solution. It can be produced to emit nothing but oxygen, and when used it doesn’t produce carbon dioxide, making it an attractive alternative to the polluting fossil fuels in use today. But like any new technology, myths about its function and applications abound. Here RMI tackles some of the biggest myths and misconceptions around hydrogen, adapted from our extensive “Reality Check” series.…