The Baltic nation of Estonia has launched an ambitious 100% renewable energy goal for 2030. As part of that goal, energy industry stakeholders plan to showcase the entire country as the world’s first nationwide, integrated “hydrogen valley” hub, with a focus on green hydrogen.
Currently, hydrogen production requires more energy to produce the equivalent amount of hydrogen.
Which is why it should not be produced on a fossil fuel based grid, but is perfect for stored portable energy on renewable grids. For example, converting excess wind and solar power to hydrogen fuel.
It sounds like Estonia is on the right track, and intending to leverage their access to water and other renewables to generate “green” hydrogen. This sounds great, I hope they can pull it off.
I’m not sure what you meant by your first sentence. There are words missing. But any energy conversion will have efficiency losses. That includes for lithium batteries too.
Hydrogen should be used for portable energy, like you said. Are electric cars also not considered green unless they are charged with non-fossil fuel sources? I think everyone understands that they enable us to use other energy sources but they don’t in and of themselves reduce dependence.
I’m usually very suspicious of anything related to hydrogen but this seems like a great way to go about it.