Hydrogen
The widespread adoption of green hydrogen will depend
on construction of “ecosystems” that span sectors
and geographic boundaries, industry supporters say.
New Mexico has released a “stakeholder discussion draft” of a bill that would offer tax breaks as an incentive for developing hydrogen infrastructure.
Municipal utility Seattle City Light wants the same legislative green light to manufacture hydrogen for fuel as Washington’s PUDs have received.
The Clean Energy States Alliance urges states that get access to power from OSW to consider dedicating some of that electricity to produce “green,” hydrogen.
The California Energy Commission approved a $1.4 billion spending plan for zero-emission vehicles and re-upped funding for clean-energy projects.
Discussion topics at the NARUC annual meeting ran the gamut from affordable electrification to resilience, supply chain snarls and pipeline infrastructure.
Hydrogen may become a key to decarbonization, but state utility regulators are discovering that they have few standardized tools to regulate it.
Upgrading the gas pipeline network could prepare existing infrastructure to carry zero-carbon fuels, but it's an “enormous task,” researcher Erin Blanton said.
The industrial revolution saw certain industries "cluster" regionally. Now, U.S. hydrogen advocates are talking about "hubs" in the same way.
There’s a growing consensus in the West that green hydrogen could play a key role in decarbonizing the region’s energy system, but questions still loom around exactly how the fuel will be used in that effort.
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