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What are Platts Hydrogen Assesments?
What are Platts Hydrogen Assesments?
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Building on the world's first-to-market hydrogen assessments launched in December 2019, we expanded in April 2020 on our North American and European assessments and launched its first hydrogen assessments in Asia, following by adding Australian pricing in August 2021.
Our daily price assessments include 10 US regional set of prices, one Canadian set of prices, prices in the Netherlands, Japan and the UK.
The daily price assessments demonstrate the production cost of hydrogen for Steam Methane Reforming (SMR) production methods, including some regions Carbon Capture and Storage (CCS), along with prices for Proton Exchange Membrane (PEM) Electrolysis, Alkaline Electrolysis, Auto Thermal Reforming (ATR), Coal Gasification and Lignite Gasification production pathways, depending on the production hubs.
The calculated prices reflect both the commodity production cost and the capital expenditure (CapEx) associated with building a hydrogen facility.
The assessments include a commodity price as well as a commodity plus production cost, for the following hydrogen production hubs:
Canada
- Alberta (SMR w/o CCS, Alkaline Electrolysis, PEM Electrolysis, excluding and including CapEx)
United States
(SMR w/o CCS, Alkaline Electrolysis, and PEM Electrolysis, all excluding and including CapEx)
- Appalachia
- Gulf Coast
- Midcontinent
- Northeast
- Northern California
- Northwest
- Rockies
- Southeast
- Southern California
- Upper Midwest
The Netherlands
- SMR w/o CCS
- SMR with CCS
- PEM Electrolysis
- Alkaline Electrolysis
Japan
- SMR w/o CCS
- PEM Electrolysis
- Alkaline Electrolysis
United Kingdom
(all include and exclude CapEx)
- ATR with CCS
- PEM Electrolysis
- Alkaline Electrolysis
Australia
(all are published in A$/kg, $/MMBtu, $/kg, both including and excluding CapEx)
- New South Wales - Coal Gasification w/CCS, PEM Electrolysis, Alkaline Electrolysis
- Queensland - Coal Gasification w/CCS, PEM Electrolysis, Alkaline Electrolysis
- Victoria - Lignite Gasification w/ CCS, PEM Electrolysis, Alkaline Electrolysis
- Western Australia - SMR w/ CCS, PEM Electrolysis, Alkaline Electrolysis
- South Australia - PEM Electrolysis, Alkaline Electrolysis
- Tasmania - PEM Electrolysis, Alkaline Electrolysis
Middle East
- Saudi Arabia - PEM Electrolysis, Alkaline Electrolysis, SMR w/ CCS
- UAE - PEM Electrolysis, Alkaline Electrolysis, SMR w/ CCS
- Oman - PEM Electrolysis, Alkaline Electrolysis, SMR w/ CCS
- Qatar - PEM Electrolysis, Alkaline Electrolysis, SMR w/ CCS
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Carbon-Neutral Hydrogen Assessments
Carbon-Neutral Hydrogen Assessments
Platts daily CNH assessments represent the price of hydrogen incorporating the cost of avoided carbon emissions, where possible through the use of low emissions power generation, the removal of carbon through the use of carbon capture and storage and offset through the use of carbon credits or equivalent instruments.
The CNH assessments are published in six locations:
- Australia
- Far East Asia
- Middle East
- North West Europe
- California
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Hydrogen Pump Prices
Hydrogen Pump Prices
Platts publishes monthly hydrogen refueling station pump prices for California, Germany and Japan:
California — A monthly price survey that considers representative high and low pump prices heard in the California market from hydrogen fuel station operators across the state.
Japan – 5 locations: A monthly republishing of posts pump prices from gas company Iwatani at five locations: Thoku, Metropolitan, Chubu, Kinki, Chugoku.
Germany — A monthly repulsing of posted pump prices fromH2 MOBILITY Deutschland, a consortium of hydrogen retail station operators.
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How do these new Price Assessments Benefit the Market?
How do these new Price Assessments Benefit the Market?
These assessments are bringing transparency to an opaque market. We will publish both the commodity production cost and the commodity production cost plus capital expenditures on a daily basis. These assessments show market participants different ways to value hydrogen production in order to more accurately evaluate it as a fuel.
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How are the Platts Hydrogen Price Assessments Distributed?
How are the Platts Hydrogen Price Assessments Distributed?
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What is unique about Platts Price Assessments for Hydrogen?
What is unique about Platts Price Assessments for Hydrogen?
- We are the first independent source of daily hydrogen pricing assessments underpinned by a robust methodology and compliance to IOSCO principles
- We are very well placed to provide an external and independent view of the hydrogen markets
- We have an international reach and strong reputation based on decades of industry experience providing the market with valuable, market-tested benchmark pricing
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What is the Methodology underpinning the Platts Hydrogen Price Assessments?
What is the Methodology Underpinning the Platts Hydrogen Price Assessments?
The hydrogen price assessments are based on feedstock costs using our existing natural gas and power assessments relevant to the pricing hubs and are calculated using a predetermined capacity factor and energy conversion efficiency for each production method. For example, the US Gulf Coast price is based on an average of power prices from Texas and Louisiana, as well as physical gas prices from Houston and Henry Hub (Louisiana).
The assessments using CapEx prices use the same calculations, but also include the capital expenditures associated with building and operating a hydrogen production facility. The editorial team reviews this fixed cost on a regular basis.