Clean Energy System

Accelerate pathways to net zero emissions by converting harmful processes, like burning natural gas, into sustainable energy systems. 

Problem

Large corporations have recently invested billions into natural gas pipelines, power plants, and shipping terminals intended to operate for decades, which contribute to global warming. Renewable energy needs its own mature competitor to challenge natural gas.

Our Plan

We must clean up natural gas. Clean technologies can compete on level ground by essentially converting green electricity into natural gas through three successive steps:

• Liberate hydrogen from water using green electricity (electrolysis).

• Take CO2 out of the air using green electricity (direct air capture).

• Combine the green hydrogen and CO2 to make carbon-neutral natural gas. 

Actions that promote this efficient clean energy substitution include:

• Set aggressive decarbonization goals for energy sectors.

• Incentivize long-term storage for carbon-neutral energy.

• Invest in research and development related to procurement to optimize long-term green energy storage technologies. Improve economies of scale of the new technologies.

• Secure private sector buy-in from firms owning natural gas infrastructure that would otherwise become stranded assets in a clean energy system.

• Monitor and set penalties for harmful methane leakage.

This Matters

With our plan, all of the current natural gas pipes and power plants can remain unchanged, but the fuel running through them will no longer contribute to warming the planet. To realize clean energy into our businesses, homes, and networks, we must build on existing infrastructure and turn established fossil fuel industries green.