Happy Tuesday!
We hope you read our Blog last
week, when we blogged about Houston’s HyVelocity Hub signing its paperwork for federal funding for the H2Hubs Program. We blogged on three of the other H2Hubs
receiving their initial funding back in August, however we will keep you posted
on the last two hydrogen hubs, when the information is released.
Did anyone
happen to read the newsletter from the U.S. Department of Energy’s (DOE)
Office of Energy Efficiency & Renewable Energy’s Hydrogen and Fuel Cell
Technologies Office on November 26, 2024, their article titled, “Department
of Energy Announces Initial Funding Tranches for Gulf Coast, Midwest Regional Clean
Hydrogen Hubs”? In the article, it goes
on to speak about how two of the seven hydrogen hubs which are part of the U.S. Department of Energy Clean Energy Demonstration Office’s (OCED) H2Hubs Program are receiving their first round of federal money. The two H2Hubs will be receiving initial
federal funding for their first stage of their projects are Gulf Coast Hydrogen Hub headed by HyVelocity (HyV) obtained $22 million out of its
possible $1.2 billion, and Midwest Hydrogen Hub
headed by Midwest Alliance for Clean Hydrogen (MachH2) obtained $22.2 million
out of its $1 billion. As we spoke about
in our previous blog on HyV they are expected to take advantage of their
proximity to the Gulf Coast clean energy resources and carbon capture and sequestration
projects (CCS) which are being developed in the area of its development in the
quest to reduce emissions in the area.
While the Midwest Hydrogen Hub is expected to use the areas clean
energy resources to help reduce emissions in heavy industry like steel and
refining as well as the transportation industry due to it being on a heavy freight
corridor in Mid-America and with its vicinity to the cross-continent highway it
is positioned in a place to help with the transition to hydrogen for refueling heavy
duty vehicles. The two projects are both
positioned where they can be the most help in our transition to cleaner
industries. The two projects are
expected to employ around 57,000 people throughout the course of the projects
which will help the local economies. We
will keep you posted on information regarding details we hear on the other H2Hubs
as the information comes in. We wish
these projects luck! If you would like
to read more of the Hydrogen and Fuel Cell Technology Office’s Newsletter,
please click the link: Two Additional Hydrogen Hubs Receive Initial Funding from DOE.
If you would
like help in looking into how to transport your product efficiently, safely, and
with less of a carbon footprint, contact us via email in the Blog and check out
our ESC website!
We hope you have a wonderful evening and a great rest of
your week! One more day until
Thanksgiving!
**Disclaimer: Please see the Announcement from Hydrogen
and Fuel Cell Technologies Office for details. **