DOE Opens First Infrastructure Law Funds To Advance ‘Green’ Hydrogen

The Department of Energy (DOE) is announcing the first tranche of infrastructure law funding for “green” hydrogen, after the law set aside funds to cut costs for the lowest-emitting form of hydrogen production even as other funding from the statute is open to a wider array of technologies including carbon capture and storage-based methods. DOE on March 15 announced the availability of $750 million for research, development and demonstration of projects to reduce the cost of clean hydrogen. That will...