California Receives First $30M Tranche of DOE Hydrogen Hub Funding
California has received the first $30m installment of federal funding from the US Department of Energy (DOE) to develop its regional clean hydrogen hub (H2Hub).
According to H2 View, having been selected for a total of $1.2bn of H2Hub funding last October, the Alliance for Renewable Clean Hydrogen Energy Systems (ARCHES) hub has signed a $12.6bn agreement with the DOE to build the hub.
Made up of the $1.2bn from the DOE, ARCHES said $11.4bn of public and private funding funds have been committed to build and expand clean energy infrastructure across the state.
Senior Advisor to Governor Gavin Newsom, Dee Dee Myers, said formally signing the DOE cooperative agreement was a “pivotal milestone” for the state’s drive to carbon neutrality. “We are eager to put Californians to work building the future – a future powered by clean, renewable hydrogen that benefits all California’s residents,” she added.
One of the seven selected DOE H2Hubs, ARCHES plans to leverage California’s 16 green hydrogen projects, two blue hydrogen schemes, two existing hydrogen pipelines and vehicle refuelling infrastructure to establish 220,000 direct jobs.
