READYING THE TANK STORAGE SECTOR FOR HYDROGEN

FETSA’s executive director Ravi Bhatiani looks at hydrogen’s role in the energy transition and how the industry can adapt. The latest research carried out for FETSA by the Hague Centre for Strategic Studies showed that the large- scale adoption of hydrogen in the mid-term has many uncertainties. These include the demand, use cases, transportation means, and the carrier used to transport the product across long distances. The precise energy carriers that will be needed to transport and store clean hydrogen are particularly important to enable a hydrogen logistics chain to develop. FETSA expects that many carrier technologies will be used, and selected by the use case deemed necessary in the relevant supply chain. The carriers will include ammonia, methanol, liquid organic hydrogen, cryogenic and compressed hydrogen. ‘Refined’ hydrogen products such as e-fuels and e-chemicals will also need to be stored and transported. HYDROGEN’S ROLE IN THE ENERGY TRANSITION One thing is certain today: worldwide, governments are starting to view clean hydrogen as a critical part of the energy transition and an energy carrier that is being given enhanced political support through...