How do we allow (not to mention fund & suppress criticism of) such slaughter--and similar atrocities over the last 20 months and beyond? We all need to speak out more--to save innocent lives and stop the theft of our souls. From Omar El Akkad in "One Day, Everyone Will Have Always Been Against This"

The roadmap pulls together insights from a collaborative process involving two global workshops and hundreds of comments from energy regulators from around the world. It identifies, organizes, and offers question and priority sets for key issue areas that fall within energy regulators' purview.

The hydrogen hype cycle has confused the industry's growth trajectory--with implications for electric and gas utilities. @oboylemm.bsky.social and I worked with the Regulatory Energy Transition Accelerator on a new @energyinnovation.org hydrogen regulation paper:
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Key Finding 5: In the U.S., hydrogen's market potential for high-value uses exceeds clean H2 production goals--so any H2 flowing to low-value uses cuts into decarbonizing high-value sectors on the needed timeline. (Efficiency, biofuels can help cut H2 demand in high-value uses.)

Key Finding 4 (cont.): This figure shows using clean electricity to displace fossil fuel power almost always does more to reduce GHGs than using it to electrolyze H2 for use in any downstream application. H2 is important, but it must not reverse progress on cleaning the grid.

Key Finding 4 (cont.): This figure shows the net climate pollution impact from hydrogen production and use. Blue bars = GHGs avoided from H2 use. Turquoise dashed line = GHGs emitted from electrolytic H2 production that fails to meet certain guardrails (the "three pillars").

The paper's core message: Hydrogen will be important for achieving our climate goals, but it can do so if and only if it is truly zero-carbon and directed to appropriate applications. Straying from this narrow path can reverse, delay, or raise the cost of emission reductions.

🚨NEW: We published a paper titled Hydrogen Policy's Narrow Path: Delusions & Solutions. It's dense with information but organized for readability, including a series of standalone 2-page overviews covering 12 potential hydrogen end uses.
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