Bloomberg: “Secretive Hydrogen Hub Talks Test Energy Agency Community Plans”
RFF Senior Fellow Alan Krupnick comments on the need for transparency in the federal government's regional hydrogen hub program.
By another measure, 80 percent of publicly announced hydrogen production capacity in hub-affiliated states will use natural gas with carbon capture and storage, BloombergNEF reported in November. If gas-sourced hydrogen will be the “dominant product” from the hubs, it is “unclear how ‘green’ these seven hubs will be,” the report stated...
Sharing more details should be a top priority for the DOE, said Alan Krupnick, a senior fellow for Resources for the Future and director of its industry and fuels program.
“The very nature of the hydrogen hubs is rolling over EJ concerns, and I don’t know how that’s going to work out,” Krupnick said. The problem could be alleviated “if we could see what the applicants are really planning here and whether they’ve tried to talk to the advocacy groups to deal with that.”
