Biden Administration Announces $62 Million to Foster Clean Hydrogen Technology

The U.S. Energy Department on Aug. 30 announced approximately $62 million for 20 projects across 15 states to enhance clean hydrogen infrastructure performance while promoting safe and equitable deployment through better permitting and community engagement.

These projects will enhance critical fundamentals of hydrogen fueling infrastructure, advance and establish hydrogen powered container handling apparatus for utilization at ports, and enhance procedures vital to the efficient, appropriate and stable implementation of hydrogen technologies.

The initiative supports the administration’s vision for an equitable, clean hydrogen economy while tackling climate change. The U.S. National Clean Hydrogen Strategy and Roadmap, released in June 2023, presens a strategic framework for achieving large-scale production and use of clean hydrogen, envisioning the production of 50 million metric tons annually by 2050. The roadmap encourages a number of end uses for clean hydrogen and will become a vital part of the department’s hydrogen programs wide-ranging portfolio of research, expansion and demonstration actions. These programs will collaborate with the department’s Regional Clean Hydrogen Hubs and tax incentives in the 2022 Inflation Reduction Act to fast-track growth towards a booming clean hydrogen economy.

The roadmap explores prospects for clean hydrogen to assist towards national decarbonization goals across a number of sectors across the U.S. economy. It provides a summary of hydrogen generation, storage, transport, and utilization in the current U.S. energy market and displays a planned framework for accomplishing large-scale generation and utilization of clean hydrogen, analyzing scenarios for 2030, 2040, and 2050.

The department’s Hydrogen and Fuel Cell will oversee the 20 projects, which cover the following five topics: components for hydrogen fueling for medium and heavy-duty vehicles, standardized hydrogen refueling station of the future, hydrogen fuel cell powered port equipment, allowing the approving and safety for hydrogen utilization and equitable hydrogen technology community engagement.