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Summary: The Mid-Atlantic Hydrogen Hub spans the Delaware River and includes Pennsylvania, Delaware, and southern New Jersey. The Mid-Atlantic Hydrogen Hub will help unlock hydrogen-driven decarbonization in the Mid-Atlantic while repurposing historic oil infrastructure and using existing rights-of-way. The Mid-Atlantic Hydrogen Hub plans to develop renewable hydrogen production facilities from renewables and nuclear electricity using both established and innovative electrolyzer technologies, where it can help reduce costs and drive further technology adoption. It aims to expand hydrogen application to industries including heavy transportation (e.g., trucks, buses, refuse trucks, and street sweepers), manufacturing and industrial process improvements, and combined heat and power, where it can significantly reduce carbon emission by approximately 1 million metric tons per year, which is roughly equivalent to the emissions from 220,000 cars annually. Along with hydrogen production, the Mid-Atlantic Hydrogen Hub plans to expand hydrogen distribution infrastructure, upgrade bus mechanic depots, and develop fueling stations to facilitate hydrogen distribution to more end users. The expansion of hydrogen infrastructure will lower the costs of storage and distribution and ultimately assist with reducing the cost of hydrogen and achieving anticipated emissions reductions.
Hydrogen is a versatile fuel that can be produced from clean, diverse, and domestic energy resources, including wind, solar, and nuclear energy, or by using methane while capturing and safely storing resulting carbon dioxide to reduce emissions. Every geographic region of the nation has its own strengths in terms of available fuels to produce hydrogen and the Bipartisan Infrastructure Law recognizes that by specifying, among other requirements, that at least two of the Hubs be located in natural gas-rich regions, at least one Hub use fossil fuels with carbon capture, one Hub use nuclear power, and one Hub use renewable energy as a feedstock. Of the seven H2Hubs chosen, two exclusively use renewable energy and the other five use some combination of renewables, nuclear power, and natural gas with carbon capture and storage to produce clean hydrogen. Of the total project investment, roughly two-thirds are associated with green (electrolysis based) production, within the H2Hubs. Any H2Hub producing carbon dioxide as an output of the hydrogen production process must have plans to store the CO2 permanently and safely. The Bipartisan Infrastructure Law also requires that each of the Hubs can produce hydrogen that demonstrably meets the Clean Hydrogen Production Standard.
Funded projects must submit detailed risk assessments and risk management plans outlining potential risks and impacts, and how they will mitigate those impacts. In addition, they will submit a Hydrogen Safety Plan that will outline their approach to produce, store and transport hydrogen safely.
Rigorous reviews of eligible submissions were conducted by internal and external reviewers that are experts in the subject matter of the FOA. Ultimately, the Selection Official(s) considered the recommendations of the reviewers with respect to individual proposals, but also applied a portfolio approach to ensure the selected projects satisfied all of the statutory requirements with respect to feedstock diversity, end use, and geographic diversity. In this last regard, the seven hydrogen hubs selected represented seven different regions of the country.
By prioritizing tangible community benefits, OCED helps ensure the next chapter in America's energy story is marked by greater justice, equity, security, and resilience. As part of this priority, OCED requires all funding opportunity applicants to create and, if awarded funding, implement a Community Benefits Plan (CBP). CBPs are based on a set of four core interdependent policy priorities: engaging communities and labor; investing in America's workforce; advancing diversity, equity, inclusion, and accessibility; and implementing the Justice 40 Initiative.
The increased number of retail hydrogen fueling locations in select markets is supporting the initial rollout of fuel cell electric vehicles (FCEVs). Manufacturers including Hyundai and Toyota are currently offering production FCEVs for sale or lease to customers in markets where hydrogen fuel is available, primarily in California. With careful planning, the focus has been to add hydrogen fuel at existing gasoline stations covering regions in northern California near San Francisco and southern California near Los Angeles and San Diego, with additional connector and destination stations.
The rollout of heavy-duty hydrogen trucks, such as line-haul trucks, will necessitate very large stations compared to light-duty needs. The increase in production and distribution of hydrogen for these stations could improve efficiency and utilization of expensive capital equipment leading to lower fuel costs per kilogram, benefiting both heavy- and light-duty customers.
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High cost: energy from renewable sources, which are key to generating green hydrogen through electrolysis, is more expensive to generate, which in turn makes hydrogen more expensive to obtain.
The European Green Deal establishes a roadmap for cutting greenhouse gas emissions, while also boosting a modern and resource-efficient economy. It includes a set of initiatives to reach this goal, including the energy system integration strategy and the hydrogen strategy, which set out how to update the energy markets, including the decarbonisation of the production and consumption of hydrogen and methane.
The proposed revision creates a level playing field based on EU-wide rules for the hydrogen market and infrastructure and removes barriers that hamper their development. It also creates the right conditions for natural gas infrastructure to be reused for hydrogen. This brings cost savings and helps decarbonisation at the same time.
The proposal introduces a European Network of Network Operators for Hydrogen to ensure sound management of the EU hydrogen network and facilitate the trade and supply of hydrogen across EU borders. It also includes a proposal for a system of terminology and certification of low-carbon hydrogen and low-carbon fuels, complementing such rules proposed for renewable hydrogen under the proposal for a revised Renewable Energy Directive.
The package aims to facilitate the integration of renewable and low-carbon gases into the existing gas network. This is why it proposes to ensure that such gases have access to the gas wholesale market abolish costs for cross-border tariffs facilitating trade and reduce injection costs for those gases by 75%.
In addition, harmonised rules on gas quality are proposed, allowing for the blending with up to 5% hydrogen and access to LNG terminals and gas storage is ensured for low-carbon and renewable gases. Equally more transparency and better use of free capacities at LNG terminals and gas storages allowing more flexible gas trade and use of the terminals and storages will be ensured.
The new package proposal aims to ensure a more integrated network planning between electricity, gas, and hydrogen networks to make the development of energy infrastructure more cost-effective and allow transnational exchanges of information on transmission systems usage.
ASME B31.12 Standard on Hydrogen Piping and Pipelines contains requirements for piping in gaseous and liquid hydrogen service and pipelines in gaseous hydrogen service. The general requirements section covers materials, brazing, welding, heat treating, forming, testing, inspection, examination, operating, and maintenance. The industrial piping section covers requirements for components, design, fabrication, assembly, erection, inspection, examination, and testing of piping.
This Code is applicable to piping in gaseous and liquid hydrogen service and to pipelines in gaseous hydrogen service. B31.12 is applicable up to and including the joint connecting the piping to associated pressure vessels and equipment but not to the vessels and equipment themselves. It is also applicable to the location and type of support elements, but not to the structure to which the support elements are attached.
Much of the hype around hydrogen, particularly hydrogen made from zero- or low-carbon sources (also known as green or blue hydrogen, respectively), relies on false claims regarding its safety, emissions potential, scalability, and cost. While there may be a role for hydrogen in the most difficult to decarbonize sectors, renewable generation and electrification represent cleaner, more efficient and cost-effective strategies to eliminate emissions across the power system, from generating electricity, to heating homes and businesses, to powering cars.
When hydrogen is misguidedly used to extend the life of fossil fuel assets and to delay decarbonization efforts, it impacts low-income communities and communities of color already overburdened by fossil-fuel emissions the most. Clean Energy Group works in collaboration with environmental justice advocates and community-based organizations to equip communities with the information they need to push back against these spurious hydrogen proposals. In addition to frontline opposition efforts, Clean Energy Group provides unbiased information to policymakers and regulators to provide feedback on local, state, and federal hydrogen proposals and policies.
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