The Future Of Energy

In recognition of National Hydrogen Day, I thought that I’d share results of a poll sponsored by GE Power that asked the following question, “When thinking about the future of energy, what pathway do you believe can make the greatest impact in reducing carbon emissions?” The vast majority of the responses (75%) were in favor of hydrogen. Why? It’s an incredible molecule with huge potential, sometimes being called the swiss army of decarbonization solutions as it can play a versatile role in the energy transition. And, we already make huge volumes of hydrogen (over 70 million tonnes per year) and have the technology to dramatically reduce the carbon emissions from these processes. Plus, the use of electrolysis has the potential to generate hydrogen from water.

Once generated, hydrogen can be used as a fuel for transportation and power generation, it is an energy storage medium and has the potential to help reduce the carbon footprint of some industrial sectors. In the power sector, gas turbines have accumulated more than 17 million hours of operation on hydrogen (and similar low heating value fuels). We have demonstrated the operation of a gas turbine on fuel with ~100% hydrogen and have multiple projects…