"One of the things that gets lost when we have a conversation about the grid, is once the hydrogen is available, it has all this utility outside the power grid," Edwards said. "A grid operator managing a hydrogen storage facility doesn't have to sell it as electricity to go back into the grid. ... That is one of the places hydrogen has this strength of flexibility, but it means the regulatory framework needs to be flexible in that same sense."
Hydrogen could fill multiple gaps in the US energy system, but will energy regulations allow it to? Experts say green hydrogen will require a regulatory framework unlike any other in the energy industry.
Publish Date: 8/17/2021
The Netherlands to refit natural gas network for pure hydrogen
Publish Date: 7/23/2021
Offshore wind to power Japan's biggest green hydrogen plant
Publish Date: 8/5/2021
Fukushima nuclear disaster site will be reintroduced as hydrogen town during Tokyo Olympics
Publish Date: 8/5/2021
'Nearly everything doubled this year in clean hydrogen': BNEF report
Publish Date: 8/5/2021
“Nearly everything has doubled already this year in the world of clean hydrogen, and we expect the momentum to continue in the months ahead,” said Martin Tengler, lead hydrogen analyst at BNEF.
“More than 40 countries have now published a hydrogen strategy or are developing one. More than 90 projects are being planned worldwide to use hydrogen in industry. Electricity generators have almost doubled their planned hydrogen-fired turbine capacity since January.”
5 things to know about Lancaster becoming the nation's first hydrogen city
Publish Date: 8/3/2021
Air Liquide transforms its network in Germany by connecting a large electrolyzer producing renewable hydrogen
Publish Date: 7/29/2021
Secretary Granholm Announces New Goal to Cut Costs of Long Duration Energy Storage by 90 Percent
Publish Date: 7/23/2021
U.S. Secretary of Energy Jennifer M. Granholm today announced the U.S. Department of Energy (DOE)’s new goal to reduce the cost of grid-scale, long duration energy storage by 90% within the decade.
Bloom Energy and Heliogen Join Forces to Harness the Power of the Sun to Produce Low-Cost Green Hydrogen
Publish Date: 7/22/2021
Linde Starts Up New Liquid Hydrogen Plant in Texas
Publish Date: 7/21/2021
How to Leverage Regional Wind and Solar Power for the Entire U.S.
Publish Date: 7/20/2021
Waiting to invest in this technology is not a viable solution as delay will be expensive and risks putting the U.S. at a competitive disadvantage globally.
Success requires coordinated federal government action. …
Namie, Japan and Lancaster, California ink historic agreement to be ‘world’s first’ hydrogen municipalities
Publish Date: 7/20/2021
Plug Power to Bring Wind-Powered Hydrogen Plant to Fort Worth
Publish Date: 7/19/2021
Repurposing existing gas infrastructure to pure hydrogen: ACER finds divergent visions of the future
Publish Date: 7/16/2021
In order to assess these options, ACER reviewed more than 20 studies focusing on the technical and the cost aspects of repurposing existing gas infrastructure to pure hydrogen. The analysed studies range across various sources and stakeholders, including the gas industry, multi-partner hydrogen initiatives, industry partnerships, academia, think tanks, and others. As a result, ACER developed a summary paper on the technical possibilities for repurposing, based on these available studies. The paper also offers a reflection on the technical and hydrogen market conditions that could trigger the repurposing of natural gas pipelines to pure hydrogen.
AT TOKYO 2020, HYDROGEN SHOWS PROMISE OF A CARBON-FREE FUTURE
Publish Date: 7/18/2021
Home to thousands of athletes for several weeks, the Olympic Village is one demonstration of how this technology can be used in practice. Built as a miniature hydrogen city, it shows the potential of a first full-scale hydrogen infrastructure. The hydrogen will also fuel athlete buses and heat water in the cafeterias, dormitories and training facilities. After the Games, underground pipes will take hydrogen from a production station to residential blocks. Organisers hope the Olympic Village, as Japan’s first full-scale hydrogen infrastructure, will leave an impression on future generations.
Worldwide Olympic Partner Toyota, which also produced the world’s first hydrogen-powered cars in 2014, will supply approximately 500 Mirai fuel cell vehicles to the Games to help transport staff and officials. Toyota will also deliver 100 hydrogen fuel cell buses (FCBs) to ferry athletes around. Each bus has 10 hydrogen tanks to carry a total of 600 litres.
Chevron and Cummins Announce Strategic Collaboration on Hydrogen
Publish Date: 7/16/2021
The MOU provides the framework for Chevron and Cummins to initially collaborate on four main objectives: advancing public policy that promotes hydrogen as a decarbonizing solution for transportation and industry; building market demand for commercial vehicles and industrial applications powered by hydrogen; developing infrastructure to support the use of hydrogen for industry and fuel cell vehicles; and exploring opportunities to leverage Cummins electrolyzer and fuel cell technologies at one or more of Chevron’s domestic refineries.
Bloom Energy Unveils Electrolyzer to Supercharge the Path to Low-Cost, Net-Zero Hydrogen
Publish Date: 7/15/2021
Bloom Energy (NYSE: BE) today unveiled the Bloom Electrolyzer; the most energy-efficient electrolyzer to produce clean hydrogen to date and 15 to 45 percent more efficient than any other product on the market today.
APEX CLEAN ENERGY AND PLUG POWER PARTNER ON LARGEST GREEN HYDROGEN POWER PURCHASE AGREEMENT IN THE UNITED STATES
Publish Date: 7/15/2021
Hydrogen investment pipeline has grown to $500bn says new Hydrogen Council report
Publish Date: 7/15/2021
China is emerging as a hydrogen powerhouse with 53 large-scale projects having been publicly announced in the nation and investments worth $17bn can be considered mature.
NYPA Testing Green Hydrogen At Brentwood Power Station
Publish Date: 7/14/2021
Using a GE system, the green hydrogen project team will evaluate different concentrations of hydrogen blended with natural gas at regular intervals and will assess the blend’s effect on reducing greenhouse gas emissions and its overall system and environmental impacts, including nitrogen oxide emissions.
With Hydrogen, the Midwest Can Propel the Energy Transition; The Midwest has all the ingredients to be a leader in the emerging hydrogen economy and private investment is beginning to recognize the potential in the region. But there's more work to be done
Publish Date: 7/14/2021
And many of those technologies developed in the Midwest are already being deployed. The region has some of the highest wind, solar and carbon-free nuclear generation in the nation. Illinois, for instance, has the most nuclear capacity of any other state with 11 nuclear reactors, which account for more than half of its electricity generation. These carbon-free technologies combined with abundant water supplies from the Great Lakes are the major resources required to produce hydrogen, making the region an ideal production, distribution, and storage center for this technology that can help decarbonize the transportation, industrial, and power generation sectors. Last month, Secretary of Energy Jennifer Granholm launched the Department of Energy’s “Energy Earthshots” Initiative, to accelerate breakthroughs of more abundant, affordable, and reliable clean energy solutions within the decade. The first Energy Earthshot—Hydrogen Shot—seeks to reduce the cost of clean hydrogen by 80% to $1 per kilogram (note: a kilogram of hydrogen contains about the same energy as a gallon of gasoline).
Cummins CEO Leading the Charge to a Greener Future
Publish Date: 7/13/2021
The Hydrogen Council, a global CEO-led coalition working to accelerate the energy transition through hydrogen, has announced Linebarger as its new Co-Chair. He will take over the role from Chairman of Toyota Motor Corporation Takeshi Uchiyamada, serving alongside fellow Co-Chair Benoît Potier, Chairman and CEO of Air Liquide.
Governor Cuomo Announces New York Will Explore Potential Role of Green Hydrogen as Part of Comprehensive Decarbonization Strategy
Publish Date: 7/8/2021
To support this effort to study green hydrogen and its possible applications, the state is collaborating with the National Renewable Energy Laboratory, joining two hydrogen-focused organizations to inform State decision-making and making $12.5 million in funding available for long duration energy storage technologies and demonstration projects that may include green hydrogen. Additionally, the New York Power Authority, collaborating with the Electric Power Research Institute, General Electric and hydrogen supplier Airgas, will undertake an industry-leading green hydrogen demonstration project at NYPA's natural gas plant on Long Island to evaluate the resource's potential role in displacing fossil fuels from power generation. At the close of this short-term project, peer-reviewed results will be shared with the industry and public so that key learnings can inform decarbonizationefforts.
Shell opens 10 MW hydrogen electrolyser at Wesseling site of German refinery
Publish Date: 7/6/2021
The plant will produce green fuels within a European Union-funded consortium which is already setting sights on a facility of 100 MW at the site near Cologne to scale up its commercial operations.
British Columbia Hydrogen Strategy provides vision for clean-energy future
Publish Date: 7/6/2021
The strategy’s immediate priorities include scaling up production of renewable hydrogen, establishing regional hydrogen hubs and deploying medium- and heavy-duty fuel-cell vehicles.
The B.C. Hydrogen Strategy will advance and provide support only for low-carbon hydrogen pathways, with carbon-intensity thresholds established in regulation.