Advancing Hydrogen and Ammonia 2

Attitudes about a hydrogen economy vary dramatically. Some say that hydrogen is one of the most difficult substances to work with and most of what we hear is hype. Others claim that hydro gen holds enormous environmental and economic promise. In 2017 the Hydrogen Council offered a vision of the hydrogen economy for year 2050 with an annual income of $2.5 trillion dollars and 30 million new jobs. Unlike fossil fuels, when hydrogen is burned it produces water, not carbon dioxide (CO2). Hydrogen networks are being planned in Europe and large demonstration projects are underway in the United States and …

Beyond Hydrogen: Renewable Gas and Deep Decarbonization

The urgent need to develop alternatives to fossil gas is underscored on a near-daily basis. To achieve ambitious decarbonization goals set forth by countries, states, municipalities and corporations, alternative fuels need to scale quickly. This report from Ameresco explores emerging alternatives to fossil gas including green hydrogen and biomethane, the latter of which is also known as renewable natural gas (RNG). RNG has the capacity to scale quickly, and it also has the potential to augment and support the development of green hydrogen.

This paper to explores:

Current and future market prospects for RNG, including essential policy drivers How RNG

Green Hydrogen: Energizing the Path to Net Zero

Clean hydrogen is now clearly recognized as a potential breakthrough technology to overcome these limits. Hydrogen is a versatile molecule, which can be used directly via fuel cells or for electricity generation, and as feedstock to produce more suitable derivatives—such as ammonia, methanol, or sustainable aviation fuels (SAF)—to specific industrial and transport applications.

Deloitte’s outlook, leveraging a data-driven and model-based quantitative analysis, explores the emergence of a carbon-neutral, inclusive clean hydrogen economy in the coming years. This outlook relies on Deloitte’s Hydrogen Pathway Explorer (HyPE) model and proposes a vision for a fast-tracked development of the clean hydrogen economy, highlighting …

Unlocking the Opportunity of Low-Carbon Hydrogen: Investment, Incentives, and Collaboration

Producing hydrogen in a carbon-neutral manner is challenging (and potentially
expensive), but the many colorful means of producing hydrogen provide exciting
opportunities. Once available, it can be used in almost every vertical in the energy
space — ranging from power generation to energy storage to e-fuels production for
aviation and heavy road and rail transport, to cement and steel production, as well
as in applications in other carbon-intensive industries.

The regulatory framework for the production and use of hydrogen has taken
a number of favorable turns over the past year, which has resulted in projects
that were interesting in concept …

Hydrogen Power Generation and the Significance of Efficiency

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.…

U.S. National Clean Hydrogen Strategy and Roadmap

Given 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.” …

The Landscape of Clean Hydrogen: An Outlook for Industrial Hubs in the United States

Hydrogen 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 …

The Landscape of Clean Hydrogen

Hydrogen 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 …

Green Hydrogen Technology Assessment

Green 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 …

Towards Hydrogen Definitions Based on Their Emissions Intensity

This 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.…