Governments around the world are promoting clean-burning hydrogen as a critical component of our net-zero drive to avert the most catastrophic impacts of climate change.
In Canada, the federal government’s 2020 hydrogen strategy posits the fuel could supply as much as 30% of Canada’s final energy consumption by 2050. That may be wildly optimistic: the Canadian Climate Institute released a report in February 2021 that found that hydrogen could supply 3 to 10% of energy demand by 2050.
Still, several provinces have their own hydrogen strategies. And companies are looking for government assistance to help finance projects that would build out a hydrogen infrastructure, from production to consumption.
In the great debate over the global energy transition, natural gas producers and their political backers insist there is ample room in a net-zero world for “blue hydrogen,” which…
How green will Canada’s hydrogen push be?
