The role of hydrogen in a changing energy system
Meeting global climate goals requires significant changes to the way energy is produced and used. Across the world, many countries have made commitments to achieve ‘net zero’ emissions and to limit global warming to 1.5°C.
As energy systems evolve, there's growing consensus that hydrogen will play an important role as a clean transportation fuel, a cleaner industry feedstock, and an energy carrier for industrial power. To fulfil this potential, we need to ensure that it is produced via a low carbon footprint route.
This means seeking pathways to remove carbon from the production process by deploying technologies to create hydrogen using renewable energy sources such as electrolytic hydrogen.
Clean hydrogen solutions
As a leader in hydrogen activities for decades, Johnson Matthey’s expertise cuts across key parts of the hydrogen value chain. Today, we’re focusing our capabilities on delivering market-leading components for electrolysers, fuel cells, and hydrogen internal combustion engine (H2ICE) technologies.
With a deep heritage in platinum group metals (PGMs), we’re uniquely positioned to accelerate innovation in clean hydrogen.
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JM’s science and technology at the heart of the hydrogen economy
We are well placed to support the transition to clean, reliable energy. With many years of experience in the technologies used to make hydrogen today, we have long been working to reduce emissions from these processes.
Our science and technology are applied at multiple critical points across the hydrogen value chain, supporting a cost-effective transition to a secure and sustainable energy system:
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An established portfolio of leading technologies for the production of electrolytic hydrogen and fuel-cell generated power at world scale
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Scientific and electrochemical know-how built up over decades to support the transition to hydrogen solutions
The path to net zero
Getting to net zero means reaching the point that any emissions are balanced by absorbing an equivalent amount from the atmosphere. To achieve that and address the challenges of climate change, emissions must be cut drastically from all areas of life, including sectors that are difficult to abate, such as heavy industry, heavy duty vehicles, buses, trains, aviation and domestic heating. And with increasing recognition that hydrogen will be an important energy vector comes the challenge of deploying the technology at scale to support the shift to a hydrogen economy.
That means seeking routes to remove and capture carbon from the hydrogen production process (CCS-enabled hydrogen), and deploying technologies to create hydrogen using renewable energy sources (electrolytic hydrogen).
JM is putting its science and experience at the heart of solutions that support a cost effective transition to a secure and environmentally sustainable energy system.
