Federal Hydrogen Fuel Bills Summary

As economies pivot away from reliance on petroleum, the use of hydrogen is increasingly considered as a key component in a portfolio of alternative fuels and developing technologies to reduce greenhouse gas emissions. This is the first of a multi-part blog series on federal and state legislation being considered to stimulate "energy transition." This blog post addresses selected U.S. federal legislation.

To help stimulate critical end-use demand in particularly "hard to abate" industrial sectors (e.g., heavy industry, transport and marine shipping), SenatorsChris Coons (D) and JohnCornyn(R), along with a group of bipartisan cosponsors haveintroduced the Hydrogen Infrastructure Initiative. This package combines four pieces of legislation that will have potentially industry-wide implications by supporting both the adoption of hydrogen and the creation of infrastructure needed to transport, store, and deliver hydrogen.