{"id":459395,"date":"2026-10-07T20:00:08","date_gmt":"2026-10-07T20:00:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/459395\/"},"modified":"2026-10-07T20:00:08","modified_gmt":"2026-10-07T20:00:08","slug":"ieefa-finds-scarce-water-resources-for-texas-hydrogen-and-ccs","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/459395\/","title":{"rendered":"IEEFA finds scarce water resources for Texas hydrogen and CCS"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>An Institute for Energy Economics and Financial Analysis (IEEFA) report finds that <a href=\"https:\/\/ieefa.org\/articles\/water-intensive-hydrogen-and-carbon-capture-buildout-not-included-texas-2027-state-water\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">water resources may prove to be the weakest link<\/a> in project viability for hydrogen and carbon capture and storage (CCS) projects.<\/p>\n<p>In Texas, 78% of counties are considered to have extremely high water-stress, and almost half of its counties have water demand projections that equal or surpass supply. The 2027 State Water Plan predicts that Texas demand will outpace supply by 16% by 2030 but does not include sources of significant water demand that have emerged in the last few years, including hydrogen production and CCS projects.<\/p>\n<p>Statewide, the planned hydrogen and CCS-dependent projects most likely to be completed could require an additional 57,000 acre-ft (18.6 billion gal) of water per year, putting significant new strain on the state\u2019s already-stressed water supplies. Projects that are in early phases of development have an additional 49,000 acre-ft (15.9 billion gal) of water associated with them. If all these projects are built out to their proposed levels by 2040, there would be about 106,000 acre-ft of demand that is not currently accounted for in the 2027 water plan.<\/p>\n<p>As pressure to expand water-intensive industries increases, Texas will be hard-pressed to develop sufficient water resources to accommodate project plans. Investors should also factor increasing supply concerns into their decisions on proposed projects.<\/p>\n<p>The IEEFA provides independent, evidence-based financial analysis of global energy markets, investment trends, and policies.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"An Institute for Energy Economics and Financial Analysis (IEEFA) report finds that water resources may prove to be&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":459396,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[27,29,28],"class_list":["post-459395","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-texas","tag-texas","tag-texas-headlines","tag-texas-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/459395","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=459395"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/459395\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/459396"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=459395"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=459395"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=459395"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}