Los Angeles is aiming to become the first city in the nation to use renewable hydrogen to produce electricity, with the goal of ending the use of carbon-based natural gas entirely.
The city has a two-step plan to replace 1,900 megawatts of coal-fired generation produced at a Utah power plant owned by the Intermountain Power Agency. The first step: Build a pair of gas-fired units able to produce 840 megawatts using natural gas by 2025. The goal then is to link the units to a $1 billion storage project adjacent to the plant where hydrogen, one of the planet’s most plentiful elements, can increasingly be substituted to replace gas altogether.
Read more at Bloomberg Green.