WV’s ARCH2 Hydrogen Hub “Stalled” Due to Lack of H2 Buyers

Sorry, Field of Dreams, but if you build it, they don't necessarily come. That's the hard lesson for one of the biggest boondoggles of the Biden years---seven hydrogen hub projects (from 33 finalists) promised a collective $7 billion in federal funding (see Hydrogen Hub Winners Announced – WV Takes Prize in M-U Region). Among the winners was the West Virginia-led Appalachian Regional Clean Hydrogen Hub (ARCH2), which is a project that will use Marcellus/Utica natural gas as the feedstock to produce “blue” hydrogen, which is hydrogen made from natgas where carbon dioxide from the process is captured and either used or stored underground. ARCH2 qualified for up to $925 million of taxpayer money. But then Donald Trump was elected, and he can sniff out a grifting boondoggle a mile away, putting some of the projects (but not ARCH2) on hold (see ARCH2 and MACH2 Hydrogen Hub Projects Keep Fed Funding, For Now).

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