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Hydrogen's Big Shot
by Nemanja Danilovic and Iryna Zenyuk

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e are at the confluence of two significant worldwide In the fifth article, “Hydrogen is Essential for Industry and
events. First, the incredible decrease in the cost of Transportation Decarbonization,” Rod Borup, Ted Krause, and Jack
renewable electricity (generated by solar and wind) Brouwer outline the challenges and pathways to decarbonization of
and its accelerating deployment which is generating industrial and transportation sectors and describe the role hydrogen will
a demand for energy conversion and storage devices. play to enable a net-zero carbon emissions economy.
Secondly, we are seeing a need to decrease our carbon emissions from In the sixth article, “Getting Hydrogen to the Gigaton Scale,” Bryan
vast sectors of our economies in order to combat, decelerate, and reverse Pivovar, Mark Ruth, Akihiro Nakano, Hirohide Furutani, Christopher
climate change. The United States and many European countries have Hebling, and Tom Smolinka outline the pathway for hydrogen to achieve
set a goal to reach net-zero carbon emissions by 2050. To that end, generation on a gigaton scale, as projected by a Hydrogen Council
several energy conversion technologies are enabling hydrogen’s time to study. Challenges to achieve this large scale of deployment consist of
help achieve these goals set at the state and country level throughout infrastructure development and supply chain and policy considerations.
the world to help decarbonize beyond the transportation sector into The authors further outline the R&D needs that emerged out of their
heating, food production, metallurgy, and refining. In this spirit, this ongoing Gigaton Hydrogen Workshop series that can be broadly
issue brings to light various aspects of why now is the right time for categorized into making, moving/storing, using, and analyzing hydrogen
hydrogen deployment at scale, and how the Electrochemical Society and related technologies. The R&D advances are highlighted as most
can help contribute to achieving a cleaner, brighter future. Alongside important to reach the gigaton scale of hydrogen production.
copious worldwide hydrogen technology research, development, and In conclusion, the difference for H2, this time around, is that it's a
deployment funding announced in the last year, the US Department of solution to a problem; it is no longer searching for problems to solve. In
Energy has issued its first EarthShot Challenge, the Hydrogen Shot, this decade, fundamental and applied science will need to come together
which seeks to reduce the cost of clean hydrogen by 80% to $1 per 1 alongside industrialization of this critical technology in order to meet
kilogram in 1 decade (“1 1 1”), which would help enable its widespread society’s needs.
deployment and deep decarbonization. Insights into the “Hydrogen © The Electrochemical Society. DOI: 10.1149.2/2.F10214IF
Shot” can be found in the Julie Forniciari’s interview with Department of
Energy Assistant Secretary Kelly J. Speakes-Backman. About the Authors
In the first of two chalkboard articles, Ahmet Kusoglu presents “The
Many Colors of Hydrogen” and how they define the carbon intensity of Nemanja Danilovic, Lawrence Berkeley
the produced hydrogen. In the second, the DOE HydroGEN Consortium National Laboratory, Berkeley, CA, U.S.
team’s Shaun Alia, Dong Ding, Anthony McDaniel, Francesca M. Toma, Education: BASc in Materials Engineering
and Huyen N. Dinh introduce the vast array of electrochemical-based (University of Toronto); PhD in Materials
hydrogen production pathways that are capable of producing clean Engineering (University of Alberta).
hydrogen. Research Interests: Water and CO2 electrolysis.
In the first article of the issue, “From Hydrogen Manifesto, through Pubs + Patents: 48 papers, h-index: 27, 3 ECS
Green Deal and Just Transition, to Clean Energy Act,” Plamen publications.
Atanassov, Vito Di Noto, and Stephen McPhail describe the policy steps Awards: ECS Toyota Young Investigator
that the European Union (EU) most recently undertook to enable wide Award 2019.
deployment of hydrogen technologies. They also outline some of the Work with ECS: Energy Technology Division Affiliate.
most recent programs and projects within the EU. Website: https://daniloviclab.lbl.gov/
In the second article, “Hydrogen: Targeting $1/kg in 1 Decade,” https://orcid.org/0000-0003-2036-6977
Bryan Pivovar, Mark Ruth, Deborah Myers, and Huyen Dinh outline the
landscape that is driving the need for electrolysis as an enabling tool for Iryna Zenyuk, National Fuel Cell
renewable electricity curtailment and deep decarbonization. They go on Research Center, University of
to illuminate how the low cost of renewable electrons can be captured California, Irvine, CA, U.S.
by electrolyzers to provide a service while producing low cost H2. Education: BS (Brooklyn Polytechnic
Finally, the DOE consortium is described, along with its agencies that University); MS, PhD (Carnegie Mellon
are targeting research needs in this space that will help enable advances University).
in electrolysis technology. Research Interests: Electrochemical
In the third article, “PEM Electrolysis, a Forerunner for Green engineering; Electrochemical energy conversion
Hydrogen,” Kathy Ayers, Nemanja Danilovic, Kevin Harrison, and and storage; Fuel cells; Electrolyzers; Batteries;
Hui Xu, present the state of the art and emerging challenges for proton X-ray computed tomography and other
exchange membrane based water electrolyzers (PEMWEs) from an characterization techniques.
industrial perspective. The authors highlight that although PEMWEs Pubs + Patents: 70+ journal publications, h-index: 27.
are commercially available, they are overdesigned due to their early life Awards: ECS Toyota Young Investigator Award (2018); ECS Energy
support applications, requiring investment in R&D at different technology Technology Division Supramaniam Srinivasan Young Investigator
readiness levels to address challenges with catalysts, membranes, and Award (2021); Scialog Fellow, Advanced Energy Storage, Research
interfaces in order to meet the capital and operating cost requirements. Corporation for Science Advancement (2017–2019).
The fourth article, by Sanjeev Mukerjee, Yushan Yan, and Hui Xu, Work with ECS: Energy Technology Division member-at-large;
titled “Hydrogen at Scale Using Low-temperature Anion Exchange ECS member for 10 years
Membrane Electrolyzers,” provides a broad overview of the materials, Website: https://faculty.sites.uci.edu/zenyuklab/iryna-v-zenyuk/;
components, and performance status of anion exchange membrane Twitter: @muziolog
(AEM) electrolyzers. They conclude by providing a roadmap to achieve https://orcid.org/0000-0002-1612-0475
DOE EarthShot goals.
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