While You Were Sleeping – Development Of The Hydrogen Hubs Keeps On Rolling

A domestic market for clean hydrogen is central to achieving the Biden administration's goal of a 100 percent clean electrical grid by 2035 and net-zero carbon emissions by 2050. The U.S. has made extraordinary progress toward developing and implementing the National Clean Hydrogen Strategy and Roadmap in a few short years.

With strong leadership from the Department of Energy (DOE), the U.S. has moved from concept to appropriation, public-private planning, and interagency coordination, and more recently toward selection, funding and construction of regional clean hydrogen hubs (H3Hubs) that will be the key drivers for growth of the clean hydrogen market.

The success of the H3Hub program, and the availability of private funding on top of the program's $8 billion federal investment, will depend on the terms for the 2022 Inflation Reduction Act's Section 45V Clean Hydrogen Production Tax Credit. Section 45V gives qualified projects that begin construction before