Column: Renewable hydrogen is too expensive. It doesn’t have to be.
Green hydrogen remains too expensive to scale — but according to Electric Hydrogen CEO Raffi Garabedian, we already have the tools to bring costs down.
Green hydrogen remains too expensive to scale — but according to Electric Hydrogen CEO Raffi Garabedian, we already have the tools to bring costs down.
Jon Duffy tells H2 View that CPH2 must “take the step from R&D into proper commerciality,” as it looks to secure 2025 investment and convert project interest into deployment.
ITM Power will deliver over 300MW of electrolyser capacity to an unnamed customer in the APAC region for a green hydrogen power plant.
Now operational, Storag Etzel’s H2Cast salt cavern project can safely store up to 90 tonnes of hydrogen.
The government-backed initiative will explore how microgrids that integrate renewables, battery storage, hydrogen, and smart technologies can help businesses in the North East cut carbon emissions and reduce energy costs.
The green hydrogen generated by the Neptune II unit will be blended with natural gas in the cement kiln to help reduce CO2 emissions.
Plug Power is set to integrate BASF’s advanced purification technology at hydrogen liquefaction plants designed for capacities of 30, 60, and 90 tonnes per day.
“Geologic hydrogen is a high-risk, high-reward technology, facing challenges related to our limited and largely academic knowledge base and nascent ability to economically explore for, develop and produce it.”
“Hydrogen will remain important for us,” Hartung said, “even if progress in this area is slower than expected.”
Shipping giant Maersk and South Korea multinational Hyundai are to undertake joint research into solid oxide fuel cell (SOFC) systems as part of a collaborative decarbonisation push.
