Massachusetts’ natural gas distribution companies (Eversource and National Grid) want to add hydrogen to your home heating gas supply. A new report makes plain this is a bad idea. Using our state’s shiny new wind turbines to produce enough green hydrogen to allow us to put that H2 gas into the utilities’ pipelines and then burn it to heat our homes is “a dead-end climate solution that will fail to meet our state mandated emissions reduction goals at huge costs to ratepayers.” Listen to the report’s authors discuss the issue.

The reading list:

• Report: Impact of Green Hydrogen Production on the Availability of Clean Electricity for the Grid
• One-Pager on the report
• Gas Transition Allies website
• Background on the issue from InsideClimateNews
• The Climate Minute with Dr. Seavy on the fees in you gas bill
• The Climate Minute talks to Dr. Seavy about why utilities want to replace pipelines
• The Climate Minute: A Billion Dollar Brawl

• Richardson and Butterworth make the case in Commonwealth Magazine
• Brett defends Green Hydrogen
• Find the current global CO2 ppm here
• How many days ‘til 2030?

Because we recognize the necessity of personal accountability for our actions, because we accept responsibility for a building a durable future and because we believe it is our patriotic duty as citizens to speak out, we must insist the United States transform it’s energy sector, over the next decade, under a just and equitable plan, that uses regulations, investments and a price on carbon that protects environmental justice communities.

Thanks for listening.

…Ted McIntyre