{"id":500484,"date":"2022-06-24T11:42:34","date_gmt":"2022-06-24T06:12:34","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/?p=500484"},"modified":"2022-06-24T12:54:14","modified_gmt":"2022-06-24T07:24:14","slug":"is-green-hydrogen-a-game-changer-in-clean-energy-transition-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/is-green-hydrogen-a-game-changer-in-clean-energy-transition-2\/","title":{"rendered":"Is green hydrogen a &#8216;game changer&#8217; in clean energy transition?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>High in Chile&#8217;s sun-drenched Atacama desert, Gaston Caceres and five other engineers are working on plans for a huge solar-powered hydrogen project that reflects their country&#8217;s ambitions to become a leading exporter of the fuel. &#8220;Green&#8221; hydrogen, which is extracted from water using electrolysis in a process powered by renewable energy, is touted as a potential game changer in the race for net-zero emissions by cutting fossil fuel dependence to fight climate change.<\/p>\n<p>But despite Chile&#8217;s abundant supplies of wind and solar energy, Caceres is candid about the challenges ahead for the nascent project &#8211; not least its $4 billion-$5 billion estimated price tag.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;There aren&#8217;t tax breaks or other governmental benefits for these type of big project developments,&#8221; he said.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>High in Chile&#8217;s sun-drenched Atacama desert, Gaston Caceres and five other engineers are working on plans for a huge solar-powered hydrogen project that reflects their country&#8217;s ambitions to become a leading exporter of the fuel. &#8220;Green&#8221; hydrogen, which is extracted from water using electrolysis in a process powered by renewable energy, is touted as a potential game changer in the race for net-zero emissions by cutting fossil fuel dependence to fight climate change. But despite Chile&#8217;s abundant supplies of wind and solar energy, Caceres is candid about the challenges ahead for the nascent project &#8211; not least its $4 billion-$5 [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":40,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[130,239,136],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-500484","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-newspapers","category-power-the-economic-times","category-the-economic-times"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/500484","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/40"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=500484"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/500484\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=500484"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=500484"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=500484"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}