Canada Needs Power-To-X Strategy

Under the federal government's current climate plan, the Pan-Canadian Framework on Clean Growth and Climate Change, there is little mention of hydrogen and certainly no contemplation of the world of energies, chemicals and products that electrolysis has to offer. If Canada is serious about green hydrogen then we need to look to its end markets – the world of Power-to-X (PtX).

The rise of PtX

Arguably originating in Germany, PtX is a blanket term for a number of technologies that use electricity to produce hydrogen. PtX uses hydrogen as a fuel/energy source in its pure form, as well as:

• a derivative fuels/energies, such as ammonia (in combination with nitrogen) or methanol (in combination with carbon);