CHBC Submits Comments on the Draft 2018 Integrated Energy Policy Report Update Volume II
On November 2, 2018, the California Hydrogen Business Council (CHBC) submitted comments and recommendations to the California Energy Commission (CEC) on the Draft 2018 Integrated Energy Policy Report Update Volume 2. The CHBC previously identified five issues the 2018 IEPR Update should take into account:
- Assessment of the opportunity of sector coupling to help decarbonize energy sectors and increase the ability of integrating higher amounts of renewable energy and reduce curtailment.
- Discussion of the long-term perspective of natural gas accompanied by assessing the ability to displace natural gas and decarbonize the natural gas sector with electrolytic hydrogen and other zero and low carbon gas alternatives as replacement fuels.
- Assessment of the needs of seasonal storage needs that includes consideration of hydrogen as a zero-carbon storage resource.
- Consideration of hydrogen fuel cell technology options in the discussion of transportation energy/electrification, in terms of fuel and vehicles.
- Inclusion of current cost data and of realistic use assumptions for electrolytic hydrogen in assessing the economic use case for this technology as a pathway to helping California reach its greenhouse gas emissions reduction targets.