Oil-rich Alberta aims to be Canada’s hydrogen hot spot

Oil-rich Alberta produces millions of tonnes of hydrogen each year, generally using it to crack bitumen to produce gasoline, diesel, plastics and fertilizers.

Hydrogen first fuelled engines 200 years ago, but pushes for its mainstream adoption since then have fallen flat. Take the new Hydrogen Centre of Excellence. Run by the arms-length government agency Alberta Innovates, it will fund programs and testing facilities, and facilitate partnerships to de-risk hydrogen development for young technologies and companies.

“It’s a bit of a chicken-and-egg scenario. If you don’t have demand, you can have supply; but you don’t supply, you can’t have demand,” airport vice-president Myron Keehn said. When it comes to lowering emissions, he added, “it’s about having all the tools in the toolbox.” Instead, he said, the government should create an even playing field, and then let the different technologies compete to figure out “how can we deliver the cleanest hydrogen at the lowest cost.”

“In the short term, we need to do everything we can to drive down the carbon intensity of hydrogen that’s derived from natural gas, because it is significantly more cost effective.”

There is no major market for hydrogen exports that I can see. If everyone can produce it locally with surplus renewable energy why would they pay extra to have less economical and less environmentally friendly hydrogen shipped from Alberta?

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