The owner of a power plant being built along the Ohio River in eastern Ohio is taking steps toward fueling it with hydrogen and not just natural gas, as originally planned.
When the 485-megawatt power plant at Long Ridge Energy Terminal in Monroe County opens later this year, the natural gas-fired plant will be blended with hydrogen, a carbon dioxide-free energy source being pitched as a way to cut greenhouse gas emissions.
The goal is to transition the plant to 100% hydrogen over the next decade potentially green hydrogen a renewable energy source that uses electrolysis to split water to harvest hydrogen molecules.
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CLARINGTON Mountaineer NGL Storage LLC is exploring green options for its Appalachian Storage Hub in Monroe County.
The natural gas storage facility is gauging interest in the possibility of storing carbon-free hydrogen in its new storage hub near Clarington in Monroe County. The company announced its interest in green hydrogen storage earlier this month and is looking to see if there is a market for it in the local region. The initiative comes after Long Ridge Energy Terminal announced its plans to convert its Hannibal power plant to a green hydrogen fuel source.
David Hooker, CEO and president of Mountaineer, said the exploration is in support of the power generation market move toward green energy solutions, including that of Long Ridge Energy Terminal, being developed at the former Ormet Corp. aluminum production site. Hooker said Long Ridge Energy Terminal had reached out to the storage company to inquire if it would be willing and able to store hydrogen; Moun
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Once again, oil and gas companies are trying to use some well-crafted PR messaging to greenwash their industry. There was a recent press release titled “Mountaineer NGL Storage, LLC Exploring Green Hydrogen Storage” in which the company said it is launching “a non-binding open season to gauge interest in bulk storage of carbon-free hydrogen” for the proposed storage hub in Monroe County, Ohio. All hydrogen is carbon-free, but the reality is only 0.1 percent of hydrogen produced today is actually green hydrogen. The facility will most likely be storing grey hydrogen or hydrogen derived from fossil fuel sources.
December 23, 2020
GE’s HA gas turbine.
JEDDAH Saudi Arabia’s energy mix is in the midst of a significant transformation as it explores more efficient and sustainable power generation solutions. To that end, the most recently published renewable target in Saudi Arabia aims to have around 60 gigawatts (GW) of renewable energy by 2030, including solar and wind power.
As the Kingdom continues to decarbonize the power sector, gas fuelled power generation presents an excellent complement to renewable energy.
Supplies of renewable energy are typically intermittent in nature as sunshine, rain and wind speeds vary over the course of a day as well as across seasons, and battery storage solutions remain expensive, often making them economically infeasible.
Press Release Long Ridge Energy Terminal Partners with New Fortress Energy and GE to Transition Power Plant to Zero-Carbon Hydrogen October 13, 2020
HANNIBAL, OH (PRWEB) October 13, 2020 Long Ridge Energy Terminal (“Long Ridge”), located in Hannibal, Ohio, announced plans to transition its 485 MW combined-cycle power plant to run on carbon-free hydrogen. In collaboration with New Fortress Energy (“NFE”) and GE, Long Ridge intends to begin providing carbon-free power to customers as early as next year by blending hydrogen in the gas stream and transition the plant to be capable of burning 100% green hydrogen over the next decade.
With commercial operations planned for November 2021, Long Ridge will be the first purpose-built hydrogen-burning power plant in the United States and the first worldwide to blend hydrogen in a GE H-class gas turbine. The plant utilizes a GE 7HA.02 combustion turbine, which can burn between 15-20% hydrogen by volume in