Global Leadership in
Sustainable Green Hydrogen
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We must be clear on which hydrogen production pathways are 1.5 degree aligned and which are not. Standards without thresholds legitimise hydrogen projects that are not sustainable. The updated Green Hydrogen Standard 2.0 which now extends to new hydrogen derivatives will ensure that green hydrogen is truly clean and has a positive development impact.
We welcome the Green Hydrogen Standard S 2.0 and in particular, the inclusion of the Synthetic Methane Protocol as an annex to the Standard. This comes very timely as e-NG garners increasing attention and recognition around the world. The standard is a crucial step towards building confidence and transparency within the market, establishing e-NG as a green commodity and facilitating global production, use and trade.
Robust and secure standards defining green hydrogen and its production impacts are essential to establishing circular, decarbonized global economies. Hy Stor Energy is proud to align its plans and operations with the Green Hydrogen Organisation’s Green Hydrogen Standard. With the introduction of GHS 2.0, we reaffirm this commitment and look forward to collaborating with GH2 and other partners to shape the future of green hydrogen production and facilitate a sustainable, equitable energy transition.
The Standard provides certainty and transparency to investors and other stakeholders that green hydrogen is exactly that: hydrogen made with renewable electricity which conforms to the highest standards on emissions, ESG and the sustainable development goals.
Fortescue is committed to the production of green hydrogen with zero carbon emissions and strong sustainability criteria. The Green Hydrogen Standard sets a benchmark for what can be considered “GH2 Green Hydrogen”, and we plan to implement it across our global portfolio of green hydrogen projects.
The Green Hydrogen Standard helps attract funding and demonstrates to investors, customers and other stakeholders that these projects are genuinely low carbon and designed sustainably.
The Green Hydrogen Standard™ establishes a global definition of green hydrogen. Green hydrogen is hydrogen produced through the electrolysis of water with 100% or near 100% renewable energy with close to zero greenhouse gas emissions. It requires that the environmental, social and governance consequences of green hydrogen production are thoroughly evaluated. It also requires that the development opportunities and impacts of green hydrogen production and use are fully considered.
“The Standard provides certainty and transparency to investors and other stakeholders that green hydrogen is exactly that hydrogen made with renewable electricity which conforms to the highest standards on emissions, ESG and the sustainable development goals.”
— Malcolm Turnbull, GH2 Chair
In the first global effort of its kind, green hydrogen projects that meet the Green Hydrogen Standard (“the standard”) will be licensed to use the label “GH2 Green Hydrogen” and will be eligible to obtain and trade GH2 certificates of origin for green hydrogen and derivatives such as green ammonia.
GH2’s definition of Green Hydrogen
Green hydrogen is hydrogen produced through the electrolysis of water with 100% or near 100% renewable energy with close to zero greenhouse gas emissions (<=1 kg CO2e per kg H2 taken as an average over a 12-month period).
GH2’s definition is based on the technologies that are the leading candidates for scaling up green hydrogen production: hydropower, wind, solar, geothermal, tidal, wave and other ocean energy sources. The Standard refers to “near 100% renewable energy”. There is some flexibility (e.g., for backup systems) so long as the maximum greenhouse gas emissions threshold is not exceeded.
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