Hydrogen

Koloma raises $50M more in quest to find natural hydrogen underground

Geologic hydrogen could be a “skeleton key” for decarbonization, Koloma says. The startup has raised over $350M to try and make it work.

By Maria Gallucci . 17 October 2024

A research team takes samples of natural hydrogen gas found in Central Sulawesi Province, Indonesia. (Mohamad Hamzah/NurPhoto via Getty Images)

Podcast

The early days of transoceanic hydrogen transport

There’s a crowded field of technologies competing to move hydrogen across the oceans. Which one will come out on top?

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By Shayle Kann . 44 min . 13 July 2023
Hydrogen

A profitable fuel-cell company finally emerges amid industrywide losses

For now, SFC's success is more exception than rule, but fuel-cell firms are betting that a green hydrogen revolution will soon reverse the entire industry's fortunes.

By Eric Wesoff . 20 June 2023
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Video: Canary hits the airwaves to chat about hydrogen fuel-cell buses

Reporter Maria Gallucci joins The Weather Channel to discuss a first-of-a-kind project that will turn an East Coast bus depot into a green hydrogen hub.

By Maria Gallucci . 15 June 2023
Public transit

This East Coast bus depot will make its own carbon-free fuel

The project, located in Maryland's most populous county, will use a solar microgrid to produce enough "green" hydrogen for 13 new fuel-cell buses.

By Maria Gallucci . 18 May 2023
Hydrogen

Go big or start small: Picking the right scale for green hydrogen

Startups Electric Hydrogen and Ohmium are both building gigawatt-scale factories. But the electrolyzers they’re making come in very different sizes.

By Jeff St. John . 4 May 2023
Hydrogen

The power used to make green hydrogen must be tracked down to the hour

Big fossil incumbents claim that hourly accounting for hydrogen tax credits is too complicated — but plenty of startups and nonprofits are already doing it today.

By Jeff St. John . 30 March 2023
Hydrogen

Is cheap, clean hydrogen possible? The 'green hydrogen' battle, continued

Big oil and energy companies say strict rules for hydrogen tax credits could kill a nascent industry. Clean-energy advocates say that's dead wrong.

By Jeff St. John . 29 March 2023
Hydrogen

The great 'green hydrogen' battle

Tens of billions in federal tax credits could build a vital low-carbon hydrogen industry — or increase carbon emissions. We tackle the complexities in a series.

By Jeff St. John . 28 March 2023
Hydrogen

Test shows hydrogen blending slightly reduces gas power plant emissions

The hydrogen revolution isn’t here quite yet — but now we know what happens when a certain type of gas plant burns a small amount of hydrogen.

By Julian Spector . 24 March 2023
Air travel

A hydrogen-powered airplane just made a record-setting test flight

Startup Universal Hydrogen says it successfully flew a 40-seat passenger plane powered mainly by hydrogen during a test flight in Washington.

By Maria Gallucci . 2 March 2023