Empty hydrogen strategies in transportation sector: a plan without projects

There is no lack of demand for hydrogen in Canada’s transit network, but there is a lack of provincial support for the kind of fuel needed to power public mobility.

Without initial hydrogen bus deployments, the domestic volume of demand for green hydrogen in transportation will not grow rapidly enough to enable natural market forces to support competitive pricing wars, writes Dr. Josipa Petrunić, the president and CEO of the Canadian Urban Transit Research and Innovation Consortium.Photograph courtesy of Pexels

Opinion

BY Josipa Petrunić

November 14, 2022

On Aug. 23, the federal government signed an agreement to establish a “Canada-Germany hydrogen alliance” with the goal of exporting hydrogen from Canada in 2025. There are benefits to this move. Germany will have a much-needed allied alternative to Russian gas, and Canada will develop a new, sec...

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