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The Energy Department is doling out grants to dozens of companies and universities to aid electrolyzer and fuel cell production to expand use of the carbon-free fuel.The Biden Administration is pushing ahead with efforts to make carbon-free hydrogen a cheaper and more widely used form of clean energy, dispersingto help companies and universities including Plug Power, General Motors and Cummins scale up production of electrolyzers that make hydrogen and fuel cells that use it.
Hydrogen has a long history as a potential clean energy game-changer, but run into technical challenges over the past two decades. It’s the universe’s most abundant element but not cheap to make from carbon-free sources and costly to compress, store and move. The U.S. already uses at least 10 million metric tons of the fuel annually, virtually all made by steaming it out of natural gas.
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