Maine joins national effort to develop clean hydrogen as energy source
10/22/22
by Mehr Sher
Maine is exploring hydrogen as a source of energy in a national effort to create an infrastructure for clean power across the country.
Maine has signed on with six other northeast states to produce clean hydrogen and is seeking funding through the Department of Energy, which has earmarked $8 billion to help meet the country’s energy demand and work toward national decarbonization goals. If successful, it will be the first time such an infrastructure is created on a national scale to meet energy demands.
“With the help of federal incentives in the last few months, the potential in Maine for clean hydrogen has started to feel more tangible,” Caroline Colan, a solar and storage fellow at the Governor’s Energy Office, said Thursday at an event on the state’s role in national production.
Hydrogen is already a big part of the energy economy in the United States and is used in the production of fertilizers and industrial processes. But clean hydrogen has not yet been produced on a mass scale. This new effort would seek to invest in technologies allowing the production of hydrogen and storage of excess power through renewable sources such as large-scale solar and wind infrastructure, hydropower and wood byproducts.
Hydrogen is a storable form of energy, which means it can play an important role as a backup, especially during times when there isn’t enough renewable energy from wind and solar.
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Comment by Penny Gray on October 25, 2022 at 7:32pm
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Incentivizing inefficient energy sources seems to be the federal government's top priority.
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Comment by Eric A. Tuttle on October 22, 2022 at 7:02pm
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Converting Water to hydrogen even with the latest best technology is an automatic loss of 27% of the electricity needed to accomplish the task. Sea Water may even need more electricity creating a greater loss. -- The thought behind this new boondoggle is to utilize Sea based wind or solar (someday) to convert electricity to a transportable commodity in lieu of under ocean cables of great length. Though hydrogen is a clean burning fuel, it is a very low density energy source.
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Maine will join any effort to subsidize a new fad, instead of increasing real dense energy sources like natural gas pipelines ,hydro or nuclear. Any fad that will feed it's corrupt political left wing progressive legislature, on the backs of the poor Mainer who is learning too slowly the cost of passive politics and self-serving politicians within its borders.
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(excerpts) From Part 1 – On Maine’s Wind Law “Once the committee passed the wind energy bill on to the full House and Senate, lawmakers there didn’t even debate it. They passed it unanimously and with no discussion. House Majority Leader Hannah Pingree, a Democrat from North Haven, says legislators probably didn’t know how many turbines would be constructed in Maine if the law’s goals were met." . – Maine Center for Public Interest Reporting, August 2010 https://www.pinetreewatchdog.org/wind-power-bandwagon-hits-bumps-in-the-road-3/From Part 2 – On Wind and Oil Yet using wind energy doesn’t lower dependence on imported foreign oil. That’s because the majority of imported oil in Maine is used for heating and transportation. And switching our dependence from foreign oil to Maine-produced electricity isn’t likely to happen very soon, says Bartlett. “Right now, people can’t switch to electric cars and heating – if they did, we’d be in trouble.” So was one of the fundamental premises of the task force false, or at least misleading?" https://www.pinetreewatchdog.org/wind-swept-task-force-set-the-rules/From Part 3 – On Wind-Required New Transmission Lines Finally, the building of enormous, high-voltage transmission lines that the regional electricity system operator says are required to move substantial amounts of wind power to markets south of Maine was never even discussed by the task force – an omission that Mills said will come to haunt the state.“If you try to put 2,500 or 3,000 megawatts in northern or eastern Maine – oh, my god, try to build the transmission!” said Mills. “It’s not just the towers, it’s the lines – that’s when I begin to think that the goal is a little farfetched.” https://www.pinetreewatchdog.org/flaws-in-bill-like-skating-with-dull-skates/
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Hannah Pingree on the Maine expedited wind law
Hannah Pingree - Director of Maine's Office of Innovation and the Future
"Once the committee passed the wind energy bill on to the full House and Senate, lawmakers there didn’t even debate it. They passed it unanimously and with no discussion. House Majority Leader Hannah Pingree, a Democrat from North Haven, says legislators probably didn’t know how many turbines would be constructed in Maine."
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