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Hydrogen Potential from Renewable Energy Resources (2007)

Metadata Updated: May 2, 2025

This study was conducted in 2007 to estimate the potential for producing hydrogen from key renewable resources (onshore wind, solar photovoltaic, and biomass) by county in the United States and to create maps that allow the reader to easily visualize the results. To accomplish this objective, the authors analyzed renewable resource data both statistically and graphically utilizing a state-of-the-art Geographic Information System (GIS), a computer-based information system used to create and visualize geographic information. Land-use and environmental exclusions were applied to represent the most viable resources across the country. While wind, solar, and biomass are considered major renewable resources, other renewable energy resources could also be used for hydrogen production, thus contributing to hydrogen development locally and regionally. These additional resources include offshore wind, concentrating solar power, geothermal, hydropower, photoelectrochemical, and photobiological resources. This study found that approximately 1 billion metric tons of hydrogen could be produced annually from wind, solar, and biomass resources in the United States. The greatest potential for producing hydrogen from these key renewable resources is in the Great Plains region. In addition, this research suggests that renewable hydrogen has the potential to displace gasoline consumption in most states if and when a number of technical and scientific barriers can be overcome.

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Public: This dataset is intended for public access and use. License: No license information was provided. If this work was prepared by an officer or employee of the United States government as part of that person's official duties it is considered a U.S. Government Work.

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Dates

Metadata Created Date April 3, 2023
Metadata Updated Date May 2, 2025
Data Update Frequency irregular

Metadata Source

Harvested from Energy JSON

Additional Metadata

Resource Type Dataset
Metadata Created Date April 3, 2023
Metadata Updated Date May 2, 2025
Publisher National Renewable Energy Laboratory
Maintainer
Identifier hydrogen_re_source
Language en-US
Data Last Modified 2023-01-11T20:07:25.181Z
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Category geospatial
Public Access Level public
Data Update Frequency irregular
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Harvest Source Id f77dd4c2-ab3d-4bc7-8b3f-2aaa2e411d70
Harvest Source Title Energy JSON
Homepage URL https://www.nrel.gov/gis/hydrogen.html
Metadata Type geospatial
Program Code 000:000
Publisher Hierarchy Department of Energy > National Renewable Energy Laboratory
Source Datajson Identifier True
Source Hash 9bd8a9fa5e7d723dab89c1db0bde18282e8eab6e2a66155959dcc7cc629a225b
Source Schema Version 1.1
Temporal 2007-01-01/2007-12-31

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