by Jeff St. John for Canary Media | Oct 22, 2024 | Blog Posts
This story is republished with permission from Canary Media. Read the original piece here. A year ago, the U.S. announced ambitious plans to build large-scale clean hydrogen hubs. Now, 12 months later, those plans have advanced little and are still shrouded in...
by Sean O'Leary | Oct 11, 2024 | Blog Posts, Hydrogen & Carbon Capture, Reports
Download research brief Development of the ARCH2 hydrogen hub is unraveling due to high costs, uncertain demand, undercapitalized and inexperienced project developers, and uneconomic applications, according to a new research brief from the Ohio River Valley...
by Sean O'Leary | Oct 9, 2024 | Blog Posts, Hydrogen & Carbon Capture
An Overview For nearly a century carbon capture technologies have been used by the oil refining industry to separate carbon dioxide (CO2) from other marketable gasses. Then, in the 1970’s oil producers began injecting carbon dioxide into declining oil wells to boost...
by Claire Taigman | Sep 25, 2024 | Blog Posts, Hydrogen & Carbon Capture
On a February evening in 2020, a carbon dioxide (CO2) pipeline ruptured near Satartia, Mississippi, causing a plume of CO2 to engulf the community. Within minutes, dozens of residents collapsed in their homes and vehicles. Cars stalled, including emergency vehicles...
by Tom Torres | Sep 19, 2024 | Blog Posts, Hydrogen & Carbon Capture
In July 2024, the US Department of Energy officially awarded $30 million to the Appalachian Regional Clean Hydrogen Hub, or ARCH2, the first tranche of a total $925 million allocated for its development. The funding announcement marked the first concrete step toward...
by Ben Hunkler | Sep 12, 2024 | Blog Posts, Hydrogen & Carbon Capture
Recently, a new form of energy has generated lots of buzz in the Ohio River Valley and across the country: hydrogen. The federal government is pouring billions of dollars into new hydrogen “hubs” that would bring large-scale production to our region and several others...
by Sean O'Leary | Aug 26, 2024 | Blog Posts, Hydrogen & Carbon Capture
Key Takeaways: Carbon capture & sequestration (CCS) is a still unproven and spectacularly expensive decarbonization technology that may have value in industrial sectors that have no other viable decarbonization options. The power generating sector is a very...
by Eric de Place and Julia Stone | Aug 15, 2024 | Blog Posts, Natural Gas
Presidential candidate Kamala Harris recently announced that, if elected, she would not ban fracking, re-igniting a debate that has roiled national politics again and again. Her new position seems to be based on the mistaken belief that fracking enjoys public support,...
by Eric de Place and Zane Gustafson | Aug 8, 2024 | Blog Posts, Natural Gas
A new plan to expand a New England gas pipeline would drive more fracking in Appalachia’s colossal gas reserves. “Project Maple” is a proposal by the Canadian energy company Enbridge to expand its Algonquin Gas Transmission Pipeline by 25%, or 750 million cubic feet...
by Joanne Kilgour | Jul 22, 2024 | Blog Posts, Shared Prosperity and Clean Energy
On behalf of the Clean Power PA Coalition, a group of more than 40 clean energy, conservation, and community organizations committed to protecting Pennsylvania’s environment and powering its economy through clean energy, we’re thrilled—but not...
