Hydrogen as Fossil Fuel Replacement
Hydrogen is essential to extend clean energy solutions to polluters that are otherwise hard to decarbonize, like maritime shipping, steelmaking, trucks, and long-haul transportation. Clean hydrogen production uses either renewable energy or fossil fuels with the resulting CO2 captured.
Regional Clean Hydrogen Hubs
The US Department of Energy’s Regional Clean Hydrogen Hubs are groups of hydrogen producers and users who will demonstrate, over a five-year period, the production, delivery, storage, and use of clean hydrogen made in various ways. The federal government is distributing $7 billion to build 7 regional hydrogen hubs around the country. One of these, called MACH2, is a regional group of companies in Southeast Pennsylvania, Southern New Jersey, and Delaware. It has been funded at $750 million.
Basics
- Hydrogen Explained
- Department of Energy Hydrogen Fuel Basics
- The Future of Hydrogen: Seizing Today’s Opportunities
- We Need Hydrogen, But Not for Everything — RMI (Rocky Mountain Institute)
- MACH-2 Mid-Atlantic Clean Hydrogen Hub Coalition
- Sierra Club statement about the MACH2 Regional Clean Hydrogen Hub (at bottom of page)
- CO2 Pipelines Dangerous and Underregulated — Pipeline Safety Trust
Current Status
- Where Do MACH2 and Other Hydrogen Hubs Stand a Year on? Still Vague on Green Fuel Sources, Still Not Engaging with Affected Communities — Canary Media 10-15-24
- Riverkeepers and CRCQL Disrupt Governor’s MACH-2 Presentation — Inside Climate News –03-11-24
- U.S. Energy Department Awards for Seven Regional Hydrogen Hubs
- Regional Hydrogen Hubs Map
- MACH-2 Hydrogen Hub Wins $750 Million Federal Grant
- Explaining the Philly-Area hydrogen Hub — Philadelphia Inquirer — 10-23-23
- About the Proposed MACH-2 Hydrogen Hub — Delaware Riverkeeper Network
- Hydrogen Pipeline Risks –Public safety Trust
- Hydrogen Hub Developers Object to Tax Rules — Pennsylvania Capital-Star — 01-09-24
Paths Forward
- SEPTA to roll out 10 Hydrogen Buses as Early as This Fall — Billy Penn — 09-24-24
- PA Communities East and West Want More Info on Hydrogen Hubs — PA Capitol-Star 05-24-24
- Pittsburgh Hydrogen Hub Developer Wants Tax Credit for Using Methane — AP — 05-17-24
- How Green Hydrogen Can Make Steel Production Green — Canary Media
- Risks and opportunities of DOE’s Hydrogen Hubs Program — Union of Concerned Scientists
- MACH2 Hydrogen Hub Pollution dangers — Delaware Riverkeepers Network
- Investors put up $245 Million to Extract Hydrogen Directly from Ground — Canary Media — 02-14-24