50% hydrogen blend testing successfully completed at Georgia Power’s Plant McDonough-Atkinson
Here's a truly noteworthy hydrogen story. If you've read MDN for any length of time, you'll know that while we're not against hydrogen energy, we keep asking the question: Where are all the customers for it? You can convert water into hydrogen with no CO2 involved (called "green" hydrogen), or use the more common natural gas and capture the CO2 (called "blue" hydrogen), and produce enormous volumes of hydrogen. But if there are no customers who want to buy this cleaner and greener energy source, what's the point? Hydrogen molecules behave differently in steel pipes than natural gas, making it unlikely to be widely used as a replacement for natgas by utility companies to sell to homeowners and businesses. However, there is one end-user, power plants, where hydrogen may have a meaningful role to play. Georgia Power and Mitsubishi Power are showing how that can happen.
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