by Tom Torres | Mar 21, 2025 | Blog Posts, Hydrogen & Carbon Capture
The Appalachian Hydrogen Hub (ARCH2) was always a questionable prospect. Since 2021, the Ohio River Valley Institute has asserted that carbon capture and blue hydrogen, the technologies underpinning what later became the hub, are prohibitively expensive and only...
by Sean O'Leary | Mar 21, 2025 | Blog Posts, Hydrogen & Carbon Capture, Natural Gas, Petrochemicals & Plastics
Key Points Northern Appalachia has, for a decade and a half, premised its economic development strategies on a strategic triad of natural gas, petrochemicals, and most recently hydrogen. Natural gas expansion has proven itself incapable of delivering on promises of...
by Deirdre Lally | Mar 17, 2025 | Blog Posts, Hydrogen & Carbon Capture, Natural Gas, Petrochemicals & Plastics
The US is on the verge of an ammonia ‘boom,’ which could expand fracking and incentivize risky carbon storage infrastructure. But as with any boom, industrial expansion will eventually bring a bust. At least 37 new projects have been proposed around the country which...
by Zane Gustafson, Eric de Place, and Julia Stone | Mar 3, 2025 | Hydrogen & Carbon Capture, Natural Gas, Reports, Shared Prosperity and Clean Energy
Download report Layers of uncertainty around new ammonia markets and the ability of new projects to scale production cast doubt over the massive ammonia buildout planned for the US. A surge of more than 37 proposed projects across the country, fueled by tax...
by Tom Torres | Feb 20, 2025 | Hydrogen & Carbon Capture, Newsroom
Class VI Application Approval Statement FINAL...
by Ted Boettner | Jan 30, 2025 | Hydrogen & Carbon Capture, Orphaned Oil & Gas Wells, Reports
Download research brief West Virginia’s prospective underground carbon storage formations are overlaid by tens of thousands of abandoned and improperly plugged wells—and potentially hundreds of thousands of additional undocumented wells—through which injected...
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...
