DOE Hydrogen Hub Funding Goes from $2B to Less Than $1B Each
Secretary of Energy Jennifer Granholm attended a gathering of leftist nutballs (she was in good company) in Pittsburgh on Friday at the so-called Global Clean Energy Action Forum to announce the Dept. of Energy (DOE) has finally gotten off its rear-end and has officially opened the application process for states and regions and even private entities to lobby her in an attempt to attract a regional hydrogen hub. The Biden infrastructure bill, signed into law last November, was originally said to be funding $8 billion for “four” regional hydrogen hubs, with each hub getting roughly $2 billion (see Biden So-Called $1.2T Infrastructure Bill Passes Thanks to RINOs). On Friday, Granholm changed the rules of the game, saying $7 billion will be allocated for “at least six,” and maybe as many as 10 regional hydrogen hubs.
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As we mention in today’s lead article, the Dept. of Energy (DOE) has launched the official application process for states (and coalitions and even private companies) to petition the DOE for a share in a $7 billion jackpot to build a hydrogen hub (see DOE Hydrogen Hub Funding Goes from $2B to Less Than $1B Each). On Friday, the day the DOE made its big public announcement in Pittsburgh, the partisans at Team Pennsylvania Foundation (TeamPA), co-chaired by PA Gov. Tom Wolf, announced the publication of a new report, “Successful Deployment of Carbon Management and Hydrogen Economies in the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania” (full copy below). The report has some interesting things to say about how PA can attract one of the hydrogen hub projects.
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