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Natural gas and electric utilities across the United States are increasingly pursuing pilot projects to blend hydrogen with natural gas for various end-uses, including as a heating fuel in buildings or for power generation. However research shows these projects would increase consumer costs, exacerbate air pollution, and cause safety risks while minimally reducing greenhouse gases. By comparison, electrification is a proven, low-cost alternative that poses no safety or health risks and can rapidly cut building emissions. And in the power sector, increasing renewable electricity is a much more efficient clean energy pathway. State utility regulators and policymakers should require a …
View Full ResourceGreen hydrogen – hydrogen produced from renewable energy – will play a key role in the energy transition, and particularly in the decarbonization of hard-to-abate sectors.
The deployment and uptake of green hydrogen, and the development of national, regional and international green hydrogen markets will depend on the establishment and wide acceptance of tracking systems. Such instruments are necessary to track attributes across the entire value chain, create transparency, boost demand and encourage transferability.
The IRENA Coalition for Action brief on Green Hydrogen Certification, led by the members of the Decarbonizing End-Use Sectors Working Group, provides an overview of technical …
View Full ResourceThe industrial sector is the leading hydrogen consumer, with 87.1 million tonnes of hydrogen consumed in 2020. Hydrogen is used in refineries, chemical industry, and steelmaking, all categorized as “hard to abate” sectors. This large and centralized demand is critical for developing a green hydrogen sector.
However, several barriers impede green hydrogen’s full contribution to the industrial sector, including cost, technical, policy, lack of demand and carbon leakage risk. Policy makers can adopt industrial policies that address barriers and oblige or support a change from fossil fuel dependency of hard to abate sectors. An urgent task given the long lifespans …
View Full ResourceThis presentation examines blue hydrogen and what it requires, infrastructure, commercial markets, and technologies.…
View Full ResourceIIJA included multiple hydrogen related authorizations and appropriations including $1 billion for a Clean Hydrogen Electrolysis Program, $500 million for a Clean Hydrogen Manufacturing program, $8 billion for Regional Clean Hydrogen Hubs, and a reauthorization of DOE’s hydrogen activities with no appropriated funding. IIJA is the first time the DOE’s hydrogen activities have been reauthorized since the Energy Policy Act of 2005; this reorientation reflects the modern understanding of the future of hydrogen. Hydrogen is a decarbonization tool that can be utilized in multiple energy sectors, acting as both a chemical and an energy carrier. The regional clean hydrogen hubs …
View Full ResourceAs countries around the world rally behind net zero targets, hydrogen is increasingly seen as a missing piece of the energy transformation puzzle to decarbonise harder-to-abate sectors. The possible pathway on which hydrogen might evolve still involves many uncertainties. With the growing momentum to establish a global hydrogen market comes the need for a deeper understanding of its broader effects, including geopolitical aspects. IRENA has carried out an in-depth analysis of the geopolitics of hydrogen as part of the work of the Collaborative Framework on the Geopolitics of Energy Transformation (CF-GET). The report builds on IRENA’s substantial body of work …
View Full ResourceIn October 2021, the Energy Futures Initiative (EFI) convened a public workshop and private roundtable to explore the concept of a clean hydrogen hub as a decarbonization pathway and driver of economic growth for North Carolina and South Carolina. The workshops, part of a series to develop a comprehensive analysis of policy opportunities for further hydrogen development in the United States, demonstrate that hydrogen holds promise to develop a future clean energy economy in the Carolinas. This report, The Potential for Clean Hydrogen in the Carolinas, outlines key takeaways from these workshops.…
View Full ResourceSix reasons that the hydrogen production tax credit (PTC) in the Build Back Better Act (BBBA) is good policy and essential to kickstart full decarbonization.…
View Full ResourceHydrogen offers potential pathways for decarbonizing the electricity system, hard-to-electrify industrial and heating applications, and heavy transportation. It can provide large-scale and long-duration energy storage to balance variable power generation and demand. Hydrogen offers non-carbon paths as both energy and material input for ammonia, steel, fuels, and other production. It can be made from non-carbon renewable and nuclear generation as well as from fossil fuel sources that can be coupled with carbon capture, utilization, and storage (CCUS). There are economic development opportunities for new technologies, processes, and applications as well as to leverage and adapt some …
View Full ResourceGreen hydrogen production costs could fall below $2 per kilogram in many locations in the next five years. This zero-carbon fuel will be critical to decarbonizing some of the hardest-to-abate sectors, such as shipping and steelmaking. Achieving the crucial $2/kg target for cost-competitiveness will enable decarbonization of multiple sectors and play an important role in aligning the globe to a pathway that limits warming to 1.5°C.
RMI’s report, Fueling the Transition: Accelerating Cost-Competitive Green Hydrogen, analyzes the cost reduction opportunity and the critical enabling tools required to bring cost-competitive green hydrogen to market this decade. This report is intended for …
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