Hydrogen and Analytical Tools Workshop Series

Hydrogen has become a buzz word in the energy sector and is often described as “the fuel of the future”, with potential to both decarbonize domestic energy consumption and serve as an export commodity. Many countries are taking steps toward accelerating the nascent industry, but potential implementation is still hard to assess and reliant on future price reductions as well as international market enabling conditions.     

The multi-part Hydrogen and Analytical Tools Workshop Series, presented by the Clean Energy Solutions Center, examines the potential benefits and tradeoffs of hydrogen development and the key factors to consider when making strategy, policy, and investment decisions about the future of hydrogen and its derivatives.

In the first installment, Hydrogen 101, experts introduced the series at-large, outlined the fundamentals of hydrogen, and explored the “Hydrogen Considerations Tree”, a resource designed to empower institutions to navigate decision-making related to hydrogen development. The Hydrogen Considerations Tree was created with support from the United States Agency for International Development (USAID), through the USAID-NREL Partnership.

Speakers for the first installment include:

• Daniella Rough, National Renewable Energy Laboratory
• Omar Guerra, National Renewable Energy Laboratory
• Misho Penev, National Renewable Energy Laboratory
• Aaron Ng, U.S. Department of Energy (DOE)
• Neha Rustagi, U.S. DOE
• Campbell Howe, U.S. DOE

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The second installment of this series will focus on hydrogen to support climate targets, leveraging expertise from the National Renewable Energy Lab (NREL) and Argonne National Lab. Experts will explore the potential for hydrogen and its derivatives to decarbonize domestic, commercial, and industrial energy consumption as well as hard-to-decarbonize sectors. They will also conduct an overview and demonstration of applications of the greenhouse gases, regulated, emissions, and energy use in Technologies Model (GREET Model). The session will include Q&A with the speakers.

Speakers for the second installment include:

• Daniella Rough, National Renewable Energy Laboratory
• Steve Hammond, National Renewable Energy Laboratory
• Pingping Sun, Argonne National Laboratory

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The third installment of this series highlights technical considerations and challenges of hydrogen production, storage, and transport, as well as potential impacts and benefits to power grid services. Speakers provide an overview of the application of the Hydrogen Analysis Production (H2A tool), which supports transparent reporting of process design assumptions and a consistent cost analysis methodology for hydrogen production at central and distributed (forecourt/filling-station) facilities. H2A includes biomass, coal, electrolysis, natural gas, and emerging production pathways.  

Speakers include: 

• Holly Darrow – Moderator, National Renewable Energy Laboratory
• Misho Penev – National Renewable Energy Laboratory
• Jamie Kee – National Renewable Energy Laboratory

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The fourth installment of this series considers the market for the near-term export of hydrogen, including potential challenges and the technical and economic considerations for hydrogen markets and associated derivatives or products. Experts also provide an overview and application of the Revenue, Operation, and Design Optimization (RODeO) model which explores optimal system design and operation considering different levels of grid integration, equipment cost, operating limitations, financing, and credits and incentives. The session includes Q&A with the audience. 

Speakers include: 

• Daniella Rough – Moderator, National Renewable Energy Laboratory
• Timothy Walters – Department of Energy
• Jesse Cruce – National Renewable Energy Laboratory
• Omar Guerra – National Renewable Energy Laboratory 

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The fifth installation covers international actions for policy and regulatory enabling conditions required to support a hydrogen-based industry including environmental and social considerations, as well as certification, technical standards, handling, and safety. This session discusses these themes in the realm of international dialogue and exchange and how international exchange translates to developing international standards based on national considerations.

Speakers include: 

• Daniella Rough – Moderator, National Renewable Energy Laboratory
• Laurent Antoni – International Partnership for Hydrogen and Fuel Cells in the Economy
• Catherine Casomar – Office of Clean Energy Demonstrations

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The sixth installment covers innovations on hydrogen in the transport sector and infrastructure planning, including demonstrations of the Scenario Evaluation and Regionalization Analysis (SERA) model. The SERA model offers insights to inform infrastructure development and transportation investment decisions and accelerate the adoption of hydrogen at scale, whether for fuel cell electric vehicles or non-transportation applications.

Speakers include: 

• Daniella Rough – Moderator, National Renewable Energy Laboratory
• Evan Reznicek – National Renewable Energy Laboratory
• Alicia Birky – National Renewable Energy Laboratory
• Justin Bracci – National Renewable Energy Laboratory

The seventh and final installment applies the hydrogen knowledge acquired throughout this series. Following a summary of the series as a whole, hydrogen experts delve into detail using case studies and exercises from the “Hydrogen Considerations Tree”, a resource designed in partnership with the United States Agency for International Development, which aims to empower institutions to navigate informed decision-making related to hydrogen development and deployment.  Researchers also demonstrate the final tool covered in this series, H2FAST, which provides a quick and convenient in-depth financial analysis for hydrogen and nonhydrogen systems and services. This session ends with a Q&A with the audience. 

Speakers include: 

• Daniella Rough (Moderator, National Renewable Energy Laboratory) 
• Jamie Kee (National Renewable Energy Laboratory)
• Hussain Almajed (National Renewable Energy Laboratory)

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