Category: Fuel Cells
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Hydrogen and Water: Putting Consumption into Perspective
Introduction Hydrogen as a clean energy source has been the subject of increasing debate, with critics often citing the water consumption required for its production. While it is true that electrolysis—the process of splitting water into hydrogen and oxygen—requires water, the broader conversation about water usage is often neglected. Many of the same people who…
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North American Hydrogen Production Report – January 2025
Introduction Finding detailed and comprehensive hydrogen production information on the internet can be difficult. Data must be aggregated from multiple sources and estimates must be calculated based on the best data and methodologies possible. My name is Matt Wandel and I have been aggregating energy information data and hydrogen infrastructure data as a volunteer at…
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NorCal Zero Project
It is a milestone day for hydrogen refueling. The Center for Transportation and the Environment announces the inauguration of the NorCAL ZERO project. This new station can serve up to 200 Class 8 heavy duty trucks per day. It has a capacity of 4,000 kilograms of LH2. The station also can refuel class 1 vehicles and…
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RMP’s Real Time Hydrogen Station Status Pages
RMP has upgraded our California hydrogen maps by including a new map for real time station status and a new map for stations coming soon. All stations reporting SOSS status in California are summarized on our landing page at this link and shown below (Figure 1 ). All of the pages covered in this post…
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Michael Liebreich’s Hydrogen Ladder Debunked
Michael Liebreich is an outspoken critic of hydrogen for transportation & energy solutions. Michael purports to be an objective resource on energy information but he is a ground floor investor in ChargePoint which presents a conflict of interest to his objectivity. ChargePoint bills itself as the world’s leading EV charging network and says they focus…
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USA & CANADA QUARTERLY H2 INFRASTRUCTURE UPDATE 2022-Q1
This quarterly report chronicles key H2 infrastructure developments & stories from the past three months and is published on the last day of the quarter. Each key news item will be highlighted with a synopsis of the key event, a link to the story, and a link to its location on RMP’s Google map of…
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USA & CANADA QUARTERLY H2 INFRASTRUCTURE UPDATE 2021-Q4
This quarterly report chronicles key H2 infrastructure developments & stories from the past three months and is published on the last day of the quarter. Each key news item will be highlighted with a synopsis of the key event, a link to the story, and a link to its location on RMP’s Google map of…
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The Truth About Blue Hydrogen
Blue hydrogen is a net zero way of making hydrogen for cars, trucks, boats, ammonia, or anything for that matter. This means a lot of energy produced with no CO2, NOx, SOx, or particulate emissions. Recently some big announcements came out about blue hydrogen investments in Edmonton & Louisiana. These big announcements prompted anti-hydrogen critics…
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USA & CANADA QUARTERLY H2 INFRASTRUCTURE UPDATE 2021-Q3
Welcome new readers of RMP’s quarterly H2 infrastructure report. Each quarter we look back on the major stories related to hydrogen infrastructure advancements and we compare the current AFDC database to the AFDC database in the prior quarter to see what has changed. The AFDC database is updated by the US Dept of Energy &…
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Air Products and Cummins to Accelerate Development and Deployment of Hydrogen Fuel Cell Trucks
Air Products, a world leader in the supply and transport of hydrogen, and Cummins Inc., a global power and hydrogen technologies leader, jointly announce the signing of a memorandum of understanding (MOU) to work together to accelerate the
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USA & CANADA QUARTERLY H2 INFRASTRUCTURE UPDATE 2021-Q2
Welcome new readers of RMP’s quarterly H2 infrastructure report. Each quarter we look back on the major stories related to hydrogen infrastructure advancements and we compare the current AFDC database to the AFDC database in the prior quarter to see what has changed. The AFDC database is updated by the US Dept of Energy &…
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Mitsubishi Power Americas & Texas Brine Company Agree To Develop Long Duration Hydrogen Storage
LAKE MARY, Fla. (May 12, 2021) – Mitsubishi Power Americas, Inc., and Texas Brine Company, LLC have signed an agreement to develop large-scale long-duration hydrogen storage solutions to support decarbonization efforts across the eastern United States. Long-duration hydrogen storage is a