Hydrogen production is the family of industrial methods for generating hydrogen gas. As of 2020, the majority of hydrogen (~95%) is produced from fossil fuels by steam reforming of natural gas, partial oxidation of methane, and coal gasification. Other methods of hydrogen production include biomass gasification, no CO2 emissions methane pyrolysis, and electrolysis of water. The latter processes, methane pyrolysis as well as water electrolysis can be done directly with any source of electricity, such as solar power. The production of hydrogen plays a key role in any industrialized society, since hydrogen is required for many essential chemical processes. In 2020, roughly 87 million tons of hydrogen was produced worldwide for various uses, such as oil refining, and in the production of ammonia (through the Haber process) and methanol (through reduction of carbon monoxide), and also as a fuel in transportation. The hydrogen generation market was expected to be valued at US$115.25 billion in 2017.
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HyLaw or Hydrogen Law: A Regulation for Removal of Legal Barriers to the Deployment of Fuel Cells and Hydrogen Applications
Copyright: © 2022
|Pages: 19
DOI: 10.4018/978-1-7998-9851-1.ch002
Abstract
In recent years, hydrogen technology has been at the forefront of environmental discussions to meet increasingly tough climate protection goals and particularly low emissions targets in the transportation sector. Like any major change, a transition to hydrogen energy faced challenges in many countries, which caused several problems in the growth of the hydrogen share of the total energy supply portfolio. In 2018, Hydrogen Law (Hylaw) was introduced, which removes the legal barriers to the deployment of fuel cells and hydrogen applications. It is a flagship project aimed at boosting the market uptake of hydrogen and fuel cell technologies providing market developers with a clear view of the applicable regulations while calling policymakers' attention to legal barriers to be removed. This chapter introduces a consistent framework for the Hylaw regulations that makes is a clear and precise statement and an interconnection between law and energy management policies.