Clean Energy: What’s Next
Part of our sustainability journey is implementing ESG (environmental, social, and governance) best practices into our businesses and leveraging technology to reach new heights. Another part of our sustainability journey is leveraging clean energy and innovation in a variety of industrial applications.
We are seeing the rise of hydrogen use, as an option for a clean source of energy in a variety of industrial applications—but now we are also seeing opportunities in residential markets as well, as utilities are exploring delivery solutions to enable their customers to use hydrogen for emission reduction.
Consider the example of Southern California Gas, which is a regulated subsidiary of Sempra Energy. The company is working with Emerson to deploy digital technologies, software, and services to demonstrate the resiliency and reliability of a hydrogen microgrid to southern California utility consumers.
In an October 2022, Emerson Whitepaper, the [H2] Innovation Experience shows how this carbon-free gas made using renewable electricity can be consumed in pure form or blended with natural gas to fuel clean energy systems of the future. The demonstration project provides a path to reducing emissions from home energy use, which is another critical component to a cleaner energy future.