green hydrogen

After the Los Angeles City Council last month voted to transition the city’s largest natural gas-fired plant to green hydrogen by 2030, there are still some “areas of concern,” Sapphire Technologies Inc. CEO Freddie Sarhan said.  According to LA100, a study and roadmap for the city’s best means to achieve 100% renewable electricity by 2045…

Dutch transmission system operator NV Nederlandse Gasunie said this week it continues to explore ways to boost LNG import capacity in the Netherlands, including expanding existing facilities in Rotterdam and Eemshaven. At the same time, the company said a study indicated that a new floating storage and regasification unit (FSRU) in the port of Terneuzen…

Latin America doesn’t have any offshore wind today, but that could change soon as the region tries to build out a hydrogen industry. Off-grid green hydrogen projects should spur Latin America to a sharp increase in offshore wind projects, with capacity reaching 34 GW by 2050, according to analysis from Wood Mackenzie. Offshore wind activity…

The natural gas and oil industry is calling on policymakers to treat all forms of low-carbon hydrogen equally when doling out incentives in order to maximize the reduction of climate-warming greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions. Namely, so-called “blue” hydrogen, separated from natural gas in combination with carbon capture and sequestration (CCS), should not be put at…

As Sempra Infrastructure continues to progress its LNG export terminal projects on the Gulf Coast and in Mexico, President Dan Brouillette said demand for natural gas is also helping influence the investments in alternative fuels.  The subsidiary of San Diego-based Sempra and Avangrid Inc. disclosed a potential partnership on Wednesday to explore multiple projects to…

San Diego Gas and Electric Co. (SDG&E), Southern California Gas Co. (SoCalGas) and Southwest Gas Corp. this week revealed the state could see three separate pilot projects to blend renewable hydrogen into natural gas utility infrastructure.  Earlier this month the three utilities jointly applied with the California Public Utilities Commission (CPUC) to inject up to…

The European Commission (EC) has approved a huge hydrogen initiative that would be financed by 15 European Union (EU) countries and 35 companies as it continues to diversify its energy supplies.  Under the plan, EU member states would work on 41 “important projects of common interest” (IPCEI) to create a hydrogen hub. The IPCEI Hy2Tech…

Pacific Gas and Electric Co. (PG&E) in early May announced it plans to run a 10-year study that will blend natural gas and green hydrogen in a standalone transmission system for potential use in storage, electric generation and vehicle fuel.  The project, known as Hydrogen to Infinity, will involve PG&E and several partners – the…

Authors of a white paper focused on blending hydrogen made using renewable electricity with natural gas suggest wholesale backing by utilities and policymakers could sidetrack U.S. climate progress, but industry advocates see it as part of an arsenal of solutions. Researchers with Energy Innovation Policy and Technology LLC posited that large-scale plans to blend green…