{"id":6780,"date":"2020-12-30T22:35:55","date_gmt":"2020-12-30T22:35:55","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.pantheregroup.com\/2020\/12\/30\/green-or-blue-quebec-eyes-overtaking-alberta-to-emerge-as-canadas-hydrogen-hub\/"},"modified":"2021-01-27T15:12:08","modified_gmt":"2021-01-27T15:12:08","slug":"green-or-blue-quebec-eyes-overtaking-alberta-to-emerge-as-canadas-hydrogen-hub","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.pantheregroup.com\/2020\/12\/30\/green-or-blue-quebec-eyes-overtaking-alberta-to-emerge-as-canadas-hydrogen-hub\/","title":{"rendered":"Green or blue?: Quebec eyes overtaking Alberta to emerge as Canada&#8217;s hydrogen hub"},"content":{"rendered":"<div style=\"text-align:center\"><\/div><p> \n<\/p>\n<div id=\"\">\n<h2 class=\"visually-hidden\">Article content continued<\/h2>\n<p>Currently, the cost of developing blue hydrogen <span class=\"\">is well below that of the <span class=\"highlight selected\">green version<\/span> across the<\/span>world, giving Alberta an early advantage, notes Peters &amp; Co., a Calgary-based investment brokerage.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe development of blue hydrogen <span class=\"\">in western Canada benefits from an abundant supply of natural g<\/span><span class=\"\">as, extensive fuel transmission infrastructure, geology<\/span><span class=\"\">supportive of carbon capture and underground storage (CCS) and<\/span><span class=\"\">established regulations and technical expertise. It is<\/span><span class=\"\">estimated that blue hydrogen can be produced in western Canada<\/span><span class=\"\">for as low as $10\/GJ, one of the lowest costs in the world,\u201d Peters said in a report.<\/span><\/p>\n<p>While the cost advantage of <span class=\"\"><span class=\"highlight\">blue<\/span> is expected to erode in coming years, <span class=\"highlight\">blue<\/span><\/span>hydrogen has the potential to be a lower cost solution and be an attractive near or net-zero energy source.<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>Blue hydrogen is not a sustainable avenue and should only be a temporary solution<\/p>\n<p>Jonathan C\u00f4t\u00e9, Hydro-Qu\u00e9bec spokesperson<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p><span class=\"\"><span class=\"highlight\">Alberta<\/span> already enjoys a global leadership position in<\/span><span class=\"\">the production of blue hydrogen, with emissions from 40 per cent<\/span><span class=\"\">of hydrogen production in the industrial heartland region curre<\/span><span class=\"\">ntly being reinjected, Peters said.<br \/><\/span><\/p>\n<p>Some analysts, however, have warned of a \u2018hydrogen hype cycle\u2019 that could result in a bubble of rising capacity that will eventually burst before the hydrogen revolution begins in full.<\/p>\n<p>\u201c(The gas) industry\u2019s hydrogen hype machine is in full swing\u2026. While hydrogen is presented as a climate panacea, concerted lobbying by the gas industry has ensured that for the next few crucial decades at least, Europe\u2019s much-hyped \u2018hydrogen economy\u2019 will be powered by hydrogen made from polluting fossil fuels rather than from renewable electricity,\u201d according to Corporate Europe Observatory, an independent research group that rejects funding from EU institutions and corporations.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/financialpost.com\/technology\/green-or-blue-quebec-eyes-overtaking-alberta-to-emerge-as-canadas-hydrogen-hub\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Source link <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Article content continued Currently, the cost of developing blue hydrogen is well below that of the green version across theworld, giving Alberta an early advantage, notes Peters &amp; Co., a&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":6781,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/smartcdn.prod.postmedia.digital\/financialpost\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/12\/vw1230hydro-quebec.jpg","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[25],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-6780","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-commodities"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.pantheregroup.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6780","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.pantheregroup.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.pantheregroup.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.pantheregroup.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.pantheregroup.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6780"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.pantheregroup.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6780\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6782,"href":"https:\/\/www.pantheregroup.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6780\/revisions\/6782"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.pantheregroup.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/media\/6781"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.pantheregroup.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6780"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.pantheregroup.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6780"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.pantheregroup.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6780"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}