Regen Green Hydrogen · Resource library
The resources
Everything that grounds the Regen Green Hydrogen model — on-site routes, interactive tools, and the external works it stands on. References we cannot link without inventing a URL are listed honestly, with attribution.
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On this siteThe six-movement tellingFrom the same plant read twice to the covenant no single party can sign alone — and the one thing this model will not pretend.Open →ReferenceThe Green Hydrogen Standard — RequirementsThe leading voluntary standard. It requires informed consultation and participation with Indigenous peoples — consultation, not consent, which is the gap this model exists to close.Green Hydrogen Organisation (GH2)Visit →ReportGlobal Hydrogen Review 2025The cleanest statement of the announcement-to-delivery gap: 37 Mtpa of low-emissions hydrogen announced for 2030, against 4.2 Mtpa operational, under construction, or at final investment decision.International Energy Agency · 2025Visit →
Water, basins, and the boundary rule
ReferenceHydrogen Production and Water ConsumptionThe stoichiometric floor — 8.92 litres of water per kilogram of hydrogen — and why quoting it as the plant's draw understates the real figure several-fold.Hydrogen Europe · 2020Visit →ReferenceHydrogen Reality Check: Distilling Green Hydrogen's Water ConsumptionCumulative 20–30 litres per kilogram on a consumption basis, and the honest framing that water intensity is a siting question rather than a disqualifier.RMI · 2023Visit →ReferenceOperational water consumption and withdrawal factors for electricity generating technologiesThe denominator for the whole argument: on a thermal grid, more water is consumed at the power plant than in the electrolyser.Macknick, Newmark, Heath, Hallett · Environmental Research Letters 7(4) 045802 · 2012Visit →
Consent, ownership, and local benefit
ReferenceAcequia Authority Over Water TransfersA real, sequenced community veto: the acequia commission may deny a transfer detrimental to its members, and only then does the State Engineer review the application.New Mexico Acequia AssociationVisit →ReferenceBest Practice Principles for Clean Energy ProjectsThe operative definition of consent this model adopts: the opportunity to approve or reject before commencement, or to withdraw if the activities change.First Nations Clean Energy NetworkVisit →ReportCommunity-owned wind: Lessons from DenmarkMandated local ownership as a working regulatory instrument — at least 20% of a new project offered to local residents, with citizens owning more than half of installed wind by 2016.The Australia InstituteVisit →ReferenceWataynikaneyap Transmission ProjectThe equity benchmark: 24 First Nations retain a controlling 51% share of a $1.9 billion, 1,800 km project — ownership, not a benefits package.RES GroupVisit →
The three pillars and the emissions floor
ReferenceCommission Delegated Regulation (EU) 2023/1184Additionality, hourly temporal correlation from 2030, and same-bidding-zone geographic correlation — the three pillars in binding law rather than in advocacy.European Commission · EUR-LexVisit →Reference26 CFR § 1.45V-4 — lifecycle greenhouse gas emissions ratesHourly matching as a codified US requirement: an energy attribute certificate qualifies only if the electricity is generated in the same hour as the hydrogen.Cornell Legal Information InstituteVisit →ReferenceMinimizing emissions from grid-based hydrogen production in the United StatesThe peer-reviewed basis for the pillars: without them it would always be cleaner to make the same hydrogen from methane.Ricks, Xu, Jenkins · Environmental Research Letters 18(1) 014025 · 2023Visit →
Hydrogen's own warming, and what actually operates
ReferenceA multi-model assessment of the Global Warming Potential of hydrogenA five-model ensemble: GWP100 of 11.6 ± 2.8 and GWP20 of 37.3 ± 15.1 — the near-term forcing is much larger, and leakage decides the benefit.Sand, Skeie, Sandstad et al. · Communications Earth & Environment 4:203 · 2023Visit →ReportAtmospheric implications of increased Hydrogen useAdded emissions of 9 versus 96 Tg/yr at 1% versus 10% leakage — why leak rate is a measured ledger line and never an assumption.Warwick, Griffiths, Keeble, Archibald, Pyle and Shine, for UK BEIS/DESNZ · 2022Visit →ReferenceEnergy Hub LingenWhat 'operating' actually looks like at this date: a 14 MW pilot electrolyser running, with the 300 MW plant still under construction.RWEVisit →
Wounded ground, closure, and the anchor case
ReferenceAlternative Energy at Superfund SitesThe precedent class is measured, not hypothetical: 161 installations at 110 Superfund sites, 1,988 MW installed.US Environmental Protection Agency · 2024 dataVisit →ReportBest Practices for Siting Solar Photovoltaics on Municipal Solid Waste LandfillsThe engineering envelope a cap imposes — ballasted mounting, no penetrations, no regrading — and EPA's own note that it does not answer a CERCLA liability question.US EPA and NREL · 2022Visit →ReportSelf-Bonding in an Era of Coal BankruptcyWhy a closure obligation must be a funded instrument: $3.86 billion of self-bonds outstanding, $2.4 billion of it held by companies already in bankruptcy.Institute for Policy Integrity, NYU School of Law · 2016Visit →ReferenceSuperfund Site Profile — Chevron Questa MineThe anchor case's ground: about 328 million tons of acid-generating waste rock, remediation at 2 of 9 piles, and a cover that is itself still a pilot.US Environmental Protection AgencyVisit →