Fact Sheet

Potential Dangers of Blending Hydrogen and Natural Gas in Pipelines 

Could blending hydrogen with natural gas help decarbonize the natural gas supply chain?  This 4-page fact sheet outlines the potential dangers of blending hydrogen and natural gas in pipelines. These dangers include hydrogen’s corrosive effects on pipeline materials, its tendency to leak, and its highly explosive nature.  Hydrogen blending is also inefficient and costly: a…

Fact Sheet: Blue Hydrogen’s Impact on Water Supplies

Clean hydrogen has received a lot of interest for its potential use as a tool for decarbonization but has also prompted a lot of concerns. Hydrogen production and use can have serious consequences on water supplies, particularly in areas already facing water scarcity. The production of blue hydrogen, as well as certain end uses, can…

What Nonprofits Need to Know When Applying for Direct Pay

This document seeks to provide a roadmap of the key steps to receive direct pay reimbursement for the ITC and an easy way to track progress through those steps to ensure no deadlines are missed.

Blue and Green Hydrogen Production: Potential Harms & Global Warming Impacts

The hype around using green or blue hydrogen as a decarbonization tool overlooks the fact that all hydrogen use can significantly increase global warming. How hydrogen is produced can have significant climate impacts.

Hydrogen’s Global Warming Impacts

The hype around clean hydrogen as a decarbonization tool overlooks the fact that all hydrogen significantly increases global warming if it leaks into the atmosphere, and its use with natural gas does not substantively reduce greenhouse gas emissions.

Investment Tax Credit Fact Sheets: Bonus Credit Program

These fact sheets introduce each of the six bonus credits available within the ITC for solar, wind, and storage projects. These fact sheets share who is eligible to apply for each credit and which credits can be paired together.

Hydrogen Fuel Cells Fact Sheet

Clean Energy Group has published a fact sheet answering four commonly asked questions about fuel cells – what they are, what they can be used for, drawbacks, and potential benefits.

Five Reasons to Be Concerned About Green Hydrogen

While hydrogen might have a valid role to play in deep decarbonization of the heavy transport or industrial sectors, runaway plans to use it extensively in the power sector have the potential to jeopardize the health of environmental justice communities, not to mention renewable energy goals.

Phase Out Peakers

This fact sheet identifies the top ten metropolitan regions across the country where the health and well-being of its citizens are adversely impacted by an aging fleet of peaker power plants, and highlights the findings of work being done in New York City to advance the replacement of peaker plants with battery storage and renewables.

An Introduction to Demand Charges

This fact sheet contains some additional background information on demand charges and the relationship and interaction between demand charge expenses and energy storage.