Harvard University researchers have determined that prospective hydrogen costs are significantly underestimated because most scenarios fail to account for storage and distribution costs and their variability across sectors. “At current delivered prices, green hydrogen is a prohibitively expensive abatement strategy, with carbon abatement costs of $500 to $1,250 per ton of CO2 across sectors,” the researchers said in their study, which was published in Joule. “Even if production costs fall to $2/kg, low-cost carbon abatement opportunities will remain limited to sectors already using hydrogen, such as ammonia, unless storage and distribution costs also decrease.”

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