The hydrogen industry is facing significant challenges as it attempts to meet global energy needs and Net Zero targets, with blue hydrogen and carbon capture becoming focal points due to difficulties in scaling green hydrogen. In this gasworld article “Hydrogen at a crossroads”, CRA’s Energy experts Dieter Keller-Giessbach and Cosima Sagmeister highlight the transitional role of blue hydrogen, emphasizing the challenges in investment and collaboration needed to scale the technology, while also stressing the importance of clear regulatory frameworks and national implementation to drive the adoption of low-carbon hydrogen solutions in Europe.
Weathering the storm: Utility resource planning in the face of weather-driven reliability risks
The authors assessed how modeling different weather year scenarios in capacity expansion planning can impact resource investment decisions and the resulting...