Carbon Intensity of Hydrogen

Bureau de normalisation du Québec (BNQ)
Standards Development Organisation:
Bureau de normalisation du Québec
Contact Information:
Bureau de normalisation du Québec
Working Program:
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Designation Number:
CAN/BNQ 1789-200
Standard Type:
National Standard of Canada - Domestic
Standard Development Activity:
New Standard
ICS code(s):
27.075; 13.020.01
Status:
Proceeding to development
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SDO Comment Period End Date:
Posted On:

Scope:

Note: The title for this NOI (originally published June 22, 2021) was updated by the responsible SDO on November 9, 2021 and updated again on January 5, 2022.

Note: This NOI (originally published June 22, 2021) was reissued by the responsible SDO on June 14, 2022.

Purpose and Scope

The purpose of the new standard is to define the requirements that will allow to measure the environmental impact of the hydrogen production process. The draft standard should allow to establish a “hydrogen” qualifier that could be allotted to a production of this gas that respects clear guidelines, including using energy sources with no or low greenhouse emission.

The purpose of the new standard is to target the energy production sources, namely their impacts caused by organic carbon, in order to generate a final result establishing the environmental character of the process used to produce hydrogen.

The new standard aims at specifying green hydrogen-related requirements.

 

Project need:

The emergence of diverse applications of hydrogen technologies, namely for transportation applications, as well as the willingness to integrate the distribution of hydrogen in existing gas stations, gives us an opportunity to propose a unique opportunity to define the environmental impact of oxygen production. Since hydrogen may be produced using several methods that do not have the same energy source, this standard aims to respond to the need to measure the exact environmental footprint.

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