@dobrien13 pointed out that our current handling of hydrogen electrolysis with guaranteed clean electricity adds the incremental demand on top of the RPS requirement. However, for a region that doesn't have a BAU RPS and wants to look at just this policy, the requirement for green electrolysis won't be binding because the RPS will only be some small percentage.
In these cases, we can't simply make the RPS the expected BAU clean share + green hydrogen's share of electricity demand because the section of the RPS mechanism that estimates the clean share met by surviving capacity is on a one year time delay. To do this correctly from a "three pillars" perspective, we'd likely need a separate calculation for electricity capacity specifically constructed to meet hydrogen demand rather than fitting this into the RPS mechanism.
@dobrien13 pointed out that our current handling of hydrogen electrolysis with guaranteed clean electricity adds the incremental demand on top of the RPS requirement. However, for a region that doesn't have a BAU RPS and wants to look at just this policy, the requirement for green electrolysis won't be binding because the RPS will only be some small percentage.
In these cases, we can't simply make the RPS the expected BAU clean share + green hydrogen's share of electricity demand because the section of the RPS mechanism that estimates the clean share met by surviving capacity is on a one year time delay. To do this correctly from a "three pillars" perspective, we'd likely need a separate calculation for electricity capacity specifically constructed to meet hydrogen demand rather than fitting this into the RPS mechanism.