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 Sean O'Leary | Jun 25, 2024 | Blog Posts, Hydrogen & Carbon Capture
Lately we hear a great deal about hydrogen’s environmental and economic promise. But hydrogen deployment also carries risks, not just for health and safety, but economic risks, including higher prices, taxes, and utility bills along with little potential for job...
by Sean O'Leary | Mar 21, 2024 | Blog Posts, Hydrogen & Carbon Capture
Do you know a bad deal when you see it? Possibly not, if the deal has to do with something as arcane as leasing underground pore space to an oil and gas company that wants to dispose of carbon dioxide. But that’s the kind of deal property owners and elected officials...
by Sean O'Leary | Jan 12, 2024 | Blog Posts, Hydrogen & Carbon Capture, Shared Prosperity and Clean Energy
Attorneys who specialize in contracts know that a single phrase or just a word can completely alter the meaning and effect of a contract. The same is true . . . maybe even more true . . . of economic impact reports, which by their nature are speculative and...
by Staff | Jan 11, 2024 | Blog Posts, Hydrogen & Carbon Capture, Natural Gas, Petrochemicals & Plastics, Repairing the Damage, Shared Prosperity and Clean Energy
Together, a more prosperous, sustainable, and equitable Appalachia is possible. That’s the vision that has geared our data-driven research, guided our outreach and campaigns, and grounded our work in the region’s community and culture ever since the Ohio River Valley...
