A few things have changed since we wrote our first hydrogen blog a year ago. First, there’s heightened awareness of the many ways hydrogen can be used to help reduce greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions. Second, the number of proposed hydrogen production projects has proliferated, and our project list continues to grow each week. Third, and perhaps most importantly, the federal government has thrown its support — and billions in taxpayer dollars — behind low-carbon hydrogen. However, despite those positive developments, hurdles clearly remain in the hydrogen sector, with economics a major sticking point, though a few projects are set to get off the ground next year. In today’s RBN blog, we provide a year-end update on domestic hydrogen projects.
Back in the summer, we introduced our hydrogen production project list, which is contained in our weekly Hydrogen Billboard report, and evaluated some of the major ones on that list in Any Way You Want It. More recently, in Tangled Up in Blue, we took an in-depth look at Air Products & Chemicals’ planned “blue” hydrogen/ammonia project in Louisiana, which will include carbon capture and storage (CCS). Today, we’ll look at the latest hydrogen project announcements and bring everyone up to date on hydrogen-related provisions in the Bipartisan Infrastructure Bill.
RBN Energy’s US CO₂ Infrastructure map brings together legacy Enhanced Oil Recovery (EOR) assets, as well as announced large-scale Carbon Capture and Sequestration (CCS) and Carbon Capture, Utilization and Sequestration (CCUS) projects, all in our signature concise, accurate, and intelligible style.
Green Hydrogen Projects
Figure 1 shows our current list of “green” hydrogen projects in North America. While we aren’t particularly fond of the “colors of hydrogen” scheme, just know that these projects are the ones that use renewable energy to produce H2 via a process known as electrolysis, which we described in our second-ever hydrogen blog way back in January. While there are various smaller-scale green hydrogen plants in operation as well, we list only those that are seemingly large enough to supply enough hydrogen for commercial purposes, versus just for testing or demonstration. Also, we aren’t perfect, and if your favorite green hydrogen facility didn’t make the list, feel free to shoot us an e-mail (at [email protected]).
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About the song
“Start Me Up” was written by Mick Jagger and Keith Richards. The song appears as the first cut on side one of The Rolling Stones’ 18th American studio album, Tattoo You. Released as the album’s lead single in August 1981, it went to #2 on the Billboard Hot 100 Singles chart. The original version of the song began as a reggae number titled “Never Stop,” but evolved into a rock song, with the basic tracks recorded in January-March 1978. The final vocals and overdubs were done in April-June 1981 at Electric Lady Studios and the Hit Factory in New York City. “Start Me Up” has been the opening song for many Rolling Stones concerts and is played regularly for kick-offs at NFL games. Personnel on the record were: Mick Jagger (lead, backing vocals), Keith Richards (guitar, backing vocals), Ronnie Wood (guitar, backing vocals), Bill Wyman (bass), Charlie Watts (drums), Michael Carabello (cowbell), and Barry Sage (handclaps).
Tattoo You is an album composed of studio out-takes recorded during the 1970s. Touring obligations and in-fighting within the band made it difficult to come up with fresh material for the album. The songs were recorded between November 1972 and June 1981 and produced by The Glimmer Twins (Jagger and Richards). Tattoo You was released in August 1981 and went to #1 on the Billboard Top 200 Albums chart. It has been certified 4X Platinum by the Recording Industry Association of America. Three singles were released from the LP.
The Rolling Stones are an English rock band formed in London in 1962. Eight members have passed through the band since its formation. The band still includes founding members Mick Jagger and Keith Richards. Ronnie Woods joined them in 1974 after the departure of guitarist Mick Taylor. Brian Jones died in 1969. Bill Wyman retired from the band in 1993. Bassist Darryl Jones has toured and recorded with the band since Wyman’s departure. Charlie Watts died in 2021. Steve Jordan, who has played with Keith Richards in his X-Pensive Winos band, has played drums for the Stones since Watts’ passing. The Rolling Stones have released 32 studio albums, 39 live albums, 32 compilation albums, three EPs and 124 singles. The band has won one Billboard Music Award, 11 Grammy Awards, three MTV Video Music Awards and two World Music Awards. The Stones were inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame in 1989 and the UK Music Hall of Fame in 2004. They continue to record and released two new singles, “Rough and Twisted” and “In the Stars,” in May, ahead of the July release of their next studio album, Foreign Tongues. The clever video for “In the Stars” was directed by Francois Rousselet and utilizes AI to transform Mick, Keith and Woody into younger, 30-something versions of themselves.
"About the Song" -- written by Mickey McMahan , RBN Director of Musicology
