Will Green Hydrogen Production Impact Drought Communities?
By Carolyn Nuyen| November 3, 2022
Green hydrogen has the potential to lower emissions across various sectors, including ammonia and methanol production, oil refining, transportation, and power generation. To be considered ‘green’, hydrogen must be produced using an electrolyzer that is powered by renewable energy. Electrolyzers take water as an input and use electricity to split the water into oxygen and hydrogen. Therefore, green hydrogen production requires access to renewable energy and water. However, water may prove to be a scarce resource for green hydrogen production in certain regions due to large swaths of the country experiencing some level of prolonged drought, some even since 2000. In today’s Energy Market Insight, we’ll…