California Hydrogen Fuel Cell Summit
by Cory Shumaker (California Hydrogen Business Council/ACT News) The California Hydrogen Business Council (CHBC) hosted its 6thannual California Hydrogen and Fuel Cell Summit in Sacramento December 11-12. The Summit brought members of the industry together with government agencies to discuss the progress made in California and beyond in the continually developing hydrogen landscape. Throughout the two-day event, presenters highlighted the major accomplishments and challenges for the industry.
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With the passage of SB 1369, which lays the groundwork for California to produce and utilize green electrolytic hydrogen, California must consider it a part of their plan. While batteries can provide short term energy storage solution, for longer, seasonal energy shifts, hydrogen will play a critical role.
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The future of renewable hydrogen generation is “power-to-X,” whereby surplus electric power generated from renewable energy can be used to produce hydrogen. The power and transportation sectors can be combined using electrolyzers to produce renewable hydrogen that can be used in a number of mobile applications and stationary power generation.
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The hope is that large renewable hydrogen projects from wind and solar will become plentiful in years to come.
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SB 1369. The legislation defines green electrolytic hydrogen and sends a clear message to the CEC, CPUC, and CARB to consider renewable, green, electrolytic hydrogen as an energy storage technology in future state agency proceedings.
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Today, California has 17,000 kg/day of hydrogen production capacity. The recently announced Air Liquide hydrogen liquefaction plant will significantly increase that capacity. The production method will be steam methane reforming of mostly renewable natural gas. READ MORE