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Letter to the Public Service Commission: Our Hydrogen Concerns

3/20/2023

The Alliance is deeply concerned about the costs and impacts of hydrogen as part of our power systems. Today, we sent a letter to the Louisiana Public Service Commission (LPSC) outlining some of those concerns.

Many of those same concerns were brought up by LPSC Commissioners at the November B/E. Those concerns include the unknown costs related to the development of new pipelines and changing existing power infrastructure to handle hydrogen for combustion, the local air-quality impacts from burning hydrogen and the resulting harmful emissions, and the federal clean energy subsidies allow utilities to gain access to massive hydrogen subsidies without making any meaningful changes to their polluting status quo.

We encourage the Commission to continue to seek information about emerging technologies outside the context of utility applications. It is tempting to imagine switching one fuel for another as a short-cut to energy transition and decarbonization, but regulators should not be expected to approve technology based on speculation. Nor should regulators accept that hydrogen can affordably reduce carbon emissions and other harmful pollution.

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