(Washington, D.C.) On March 22, the Combined Heat and Power Alliance submitted comments in response to the California Energy Commission’s (CEC) Notice of Request for Public Comments on the Draft Scoping Order for the 2022 Integrated Energy Policy Report (IEPR) update, commending the CEC for building on previous analyses of the state’s efforts to decarbonize California’s energy system. Our comments focus on Section 3 – Addressing Emerging Topics: the role for hydrogen in California’s clean energy future. CHP utilizing renewable and lower-carbon fuels such as clean hydrogen can enable significant emissions reductions across the industrial and buildings sectors that will be critical to achieving California’s goal of statewide carbon neutrality by 2045. To ensure that hydrogen used in California achieves the maximum greenhouse gas reductions at the lowest possible cost, we urge California to make CHP central to its hydrogen strategy and to incorporate CHP with hydrogen at every possible location.
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