As part of the bipartisan infrastructure bill, $8 billion will go to new hydrogen projects.
Considering hydrogen has so many uses, states that are looking to become “hydrogen production hubs” have a range of reasons for wanting to get into the game. Leachman says conservative states may look to produce hydrogen mostly for industrial uses and liberal states could use hydrogen energy to increase their clean energy capacity. There is also a push for renewable energy“Every state and region has a different play on the hydrogen hubs.
Distributing hydrogen production across the country will mean all states will have access to hydrogen resources for energy and other uses and will become more familiarized with it. Leachman says this will have an important effect. “The Hydrogen Hubs initiative requires the hubs to be regionally distributed across the United States, which means, inherently, we will have hydrogen hubs that will be placed in locations where we’ve never had a hydrogen resource,” Leachman says. “That is going to result in huge, fundamental shifts in the goods and services and energy across the U.S. in ways that are very difficult to imagine.”
Leachman says having new hydrogen production in so many parts of the country could mean that hydrogen becomes a much more normalized energy source. People can see facilities in their own communities and the jobs that will be created because of them. Hydrogen production appears to be on track to become a rapidly growing industry in the United States, and it’s clearly going to affect every part of the country. Goldman Sachs claims hydrogen generation could become a