Challenges toward achieving a successful hydrogen economy in the US: Potential end-use and infrastructure analysis to the year 2100

Bridgeland, Rhea; Chapman, Andrew; McLellan, Benjamin; Sofronis, Petros; Fujii, Yasumasa

doi:10.1016/j.clpl.2022.100012

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“…Other noted challenges concern developing the necessary infrastructure for hydrogen deployment. Current literature indicates that this is among the most prominent barriers that inhibit hydrogen expansion, 150,189,190 with Greene and colleagues 191 reporting that hydrogen infrastructure is becoming significantly more challenging to implement, when compared with the implementation requirements for electricity or renewables infrastructure. The more prominent issues related to infrastructure and the transportation of CO 2 from the generation plant to the storage site, the idea that needed technologies are still immature, and that they are not readily adaptable to current infrastructure.…”

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Reconfiguring European industry for net-zero: a qualitative review of hydrogen and carbon capture utilization and storage benefits and implementation challenges

Sovacool,

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Herman

et al. 2024

Energy Environ. Sci.

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Reconfiguring European industry for net-zero: a qualitative review of hydrogen and carbon capture utilization and storage benefits and implementation challenges

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Herman

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Energy Environ. Sci.

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“…Some of the positive flow on aspects of an emerging hydrogen economy has been highlighted in global evaluations, such as the emergence of fuel cell vehicles (FCV) and the benefits in the direction of energy security [16], as well as hydrogen's ability to contribute toward carbon reduction in a number of sectors [17]. A study on the potential penetration of hydrogen and the required infrastructure for storage and distribution in North and Central America identified that the emergence of a hydrogen economy will drive FCV deployment and has the potential to engender energy security benefits, while concerns remain surrounding the storage and distribution approaches [18]. In the case of Vietnam, the government approved the National Strategy of Renewable Energy Development by 2030 and its vision for 2050 in order to lessen reliance on fossil fuels, ensure domestic energy security, and help mitigate global climate change.…”

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Renewable Energy Pathways toward Accelerating Hydrogen Fuel Production: Evidence from Global Hydrogen Modeling

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Fossil fuel consumption has triggered worries about energy security and climate change; this has promoted hydrogen as a viable option to aid in decarbonizing global energy systems. Hydrogen could substitute for fossil fuels in the future due to the economic, political, and environmental concerns related to energy production using fossil fuels. However, currently, the majority of hydrogen is produced using fossil fuels, particularly natural gas, which is not a renewable source of energy. It is therefore crucial to increase the efforts to produce hydrogen from renewable sources, rather from the existing fossil-based approaches. Thus, this study investigates how renewable energy can accelerate the production of hydrogen fuel in the future under three hydrogen economy-related energy regimes, including nuclear restrictions, hydrogen, and city gas blending, and in the scenarios which consider the geographic distribution of carbon reduction targets. A random effects regression model has been utilized, employing panel data from a global energy system which optimizes for cost and carbon targets. The results of this study demonstrate that an increase in renewable energy sources has the potential to significantly accelerate the growth of future hydrogen production under all the considered policy regimes. The policy implications of this paper suggest that promoting renewable energy investments in line with a fairer allocation of carbon reduction efforts will help to ensure a future hydrogen economy which engenders a sustainable, low carbon society.

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“…Our previous work analysed the geographic rollout of low-carbon plants across different continents [42]. Finally, numerous authors have discussed the end-use sectors [43,44] or points of end-use [45] hydrogen energy usage, including [46], who comprehensively reviewed the same low-carbon plants we mathematically analyse.…”

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Distributional Trends in the Generation and End-Use Sector of Low-Carbon Hydrogen Plants

James

Menzies

2023

Hydrogen

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This paper uses established and recently introduced methods from the applied mathematics and statistics literature to study trends in the end-use sector and the capacity of low-carbon hydrogen projects in recent and upcoming decades. First, we examine distributions in plants over time for various end-use sectors and classify them according to metric discrepancy, observing clear similarity across all industry sectors. Next, we compare the distribution of usage sectors between different continents and examine the changes in sector distribution over time. Finally, we judiciously apply several regression models to analyse the association between various predictors and the capacity of global hydrogen projects. Across our experiments, we see a welcome exponential growth in the capacity of zero-carbon hydrogen plants and significant growth of new and planned hydrogen plants in the 2020’s across every sector.

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Challenges toward achieving a successful hydrogen economy in the US: Potential end-use and infrastructure analysis to the year 2100

Cited by 15 publications

References 42 publications

Reconfiguring European industry for net-zero: a qualitative review of hydrogen and carbon capture utilization and storage benefits and implementation challenges

Reconfiguring European industry for net-zero: a qualitative review of hydrogen and carbon capture utilization and storage benefits and implementation challenges

Renewable Energy Pathways toward Accelerating Hydrogen Fuel Production: Evidence from Global Hydrogen Modeling

Distributional Trends in the Generation and End-Use Sector of Low-Carbon Hydrogen Plants

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