"Switching to green hydrogen could cost industrial facilities $500 for each ton of CO2 avoided, when accounting for the costs of storage and distribution."

"Green hydrogen will likely remain “prohibitively expensive” for most industries, despite global efforts to boost the fuel as a climate solution, according to a new study.

The study, published Tuesday in the journal Joule, found that storing and transporting “green” hydrogen will keep costs high. As governments focus on bringing down the cost of producing the fuel, the “delivered price” will remain much higher, researchers said.

“We just added a dose of reality to this whole [hydrogen] world that has exploded,” said Roxana Shafiee, a postdoctoral fellow at Harvard University’s Center for the Environment and a co-author of the study."

Clare Fieseler reports for E&E News October 9, 2024. [2]