C17 -- Combined Heat and Power plus Distributed Hydrogen Production for Building Decarbonization

Building space and water heating with natural gas contributes ~10% of global greenhouse gas emissions. Natural gas is abundant, affordable, and enmeshed in today’s infrastructure. Electrification retrofits are often prohibitively expensive or impractical. Herein, we present the technology and unit economics underlying a novel two-step concept to decarbonize natural gas building heating without increasing operating expenses.