On July 29, the Connecticut Department of Energy & Environmental Protection (DEEP) held a public meeting to discuss the findings of the Draft 2024 Connecticut Clean Hydrogen Roadmap. According to DEEP Commissioner Katie Dykes, clean hydrogen has the potential to support the state in achieving its climate goals along with other important state priorities including affordability, economic growth, environmental justice, and energy resiliency and reliability.
The primary purpose of the draft roadmap is to identify the main drivers of and barriers to clean hydrogen production and adoption as an energy carrier in Connecticut, as well as to understand how clean hydrogen compares with incumbent technologies and other low-carbon alternatives.
The draft roadmap aims to achieve the following objectives:
- Articulate Connecticut’s aspirations for clean hydrogen’s integration into its energy landscape, outlining its potential contributions to decarbonization, economic growth, and environmental justice,
- Encourage the use of hydrogen produced from renewable energy,
- Guide strategic development of clean hydrogen production, infrastructure, and end use by identifying the target technologies and their associated volumes over time to scale Connecticut’s hydrogen economy,
- Identify benefits and risks associated with hydrogen and tactics to address the identified risks, and
- Recommend policies, programs, and pilot projects to support clean hydrogen development and deployment in alignment with state goals.
DEEP invites all interested parties to submit written comments by September 22.
