County-Level Biohydrogen Production Potential Across the Contiguous United States

A county-level assessment of biohydrogen production potential across the contiguous United States integrates biomass resource availability with pipeline infrastructure and refinery demand. The dataset, authored by Siddhartha Narra and updated in May 2026, categorizes over 3,100 counties into three tiers of potential using a multi-criteria decision analysis framework. National production potential ranges from 5.36 to 13.96 million tonnes of hydrogen annually.

Use Cases

• Identify high-priority counties for biohydrogen infrastructure investment based on integrated biomass and pipeline data.
• Compare regional biohydrogen potential across different biomass feedstock scenarios mentioned in the study.
• Analyze spatial patterns of biohydrogen production potential, focusing on corridors like the Midwest Corn Belt and Gulf Coast.
• Assess the robustness of county tier classifications for production potential through sensitivity analysis.

Strengths

• Covers over 3,100 counties across the contiguous United States.
• Includes uncertainty analysis demonstrating robust tier classifications despite feedstock conversion factor variability.
• Applies a multi-criteria decision analysis framework with weighted factors for biomass capacity, pipeline accessibility, and refinery proximity.

Limitations

• Column-level documentation is absent; field semantics must be inferred after download.
• The dataset is provided as a 271.7 KB PDF file, which is a small, likely summary document rather than raw tabular data.
• Row count for the underlying data is unknown, which may limit suitability assessment.

Provenance

Source

figshare

Collection Method

Analysis integrates biomass resource data from the Billion-Ton 2023 study with natural gas pipeline and refinery demand data.

Freshness

Last updated 2026-05-14 04:21:52; freshness should be verified.

Geography

Contiguous United States (county-level)