With the ever-increasing popularity of hydrogen fuelled cars and the current lack of substantial hydrogen fuelling infrastructure, one dilemma has consistently arisen: the ‘chicken or the egg’ scenario. Which came first, and in this case, how can one expect to excel without the other?
New information from the California Air Resources Board (CARB) could be about to reignite, and possibly answer, this age-old debate after officially certifying that renewable hydrogen, as drawn from the biogas of wastewater treatment stations, now qualifies under its Low Carbon Fuel Standard (LCFS). The certification was based on the success of a three-year-tri-generation fuel cell project of making electricity, heat and hydrogen by FuelCell Energy at the Orange County Sanitation District in California. The development efficiently turned biogas from the facility into pure hydrogen for vehicles.
Couple this revelation with the growing trend and imminent market explosion of fuel cell vehicles, and it’s got us thinking at gasworld about what it will mean for global hydrogen production and fuelling infrastructure.
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