Hydrogen’s versatility and flexibility to act as a fuel, feedstock, and energy carrier make it a valuable decarbonization tool across multiple applications, including hard to abate sectors such as aviation, heavy-duty transportation, and industrial processes that require high temperature heat.
Various net-zero analyses show a range of 5-20% final energy delivered in scenarios met by hydrogen. The hydrogen system and its interaction with other parts of the energy and end-use sectors will be important for providing reliable, clean, and resilient energy across all of society.
As the clean hydrogen economy scales up, there are critical infrastructure, deployment, and policy questions to answer. Our research aims to better understand and inform the high-level considerations for developing a hydrogen ecosystem.
Ongoing and recent projects include:
- Development of the Hydrogen Optimization with Deployment of Infrastructure (HOwDI) model
- Framework for Hydrogen in Texas report in collaboration with the Center for Electromechanics and the H2@Scale Project
- H2LA Project – analysis of a hydrogen transportation corridor from Houston to Los Angeles using hydrogen as an alternative fuel for heavy-duty freight transportation
- Evaluation of the impacts of hydrogen fugitive emissions via a life cycle assessment of pyrolysis and geologic hydrogen while incorporating indirect climate impacts into hydrogen supply chain models
- Assessment of the eligibility criteria for US clean hydrogen production tax credit for hydrogen production pathways
- Technical data and analysis for the HyVelocity Regional Clean Hydrogen Hub in the Houston/Gulf Coast Region
