Emily Pickrell, UH Energy Scholar
A Canadian hydrogen plant at Fort McMurray, Alberta, Canada.
Bettmann Archive
The hydrogen economy is coming, and the Biden administration is working hard to move it along.
On November 15, 2021, President Biden signed into law the Infrastructure Investment and Jobs Act, which included $9.5 billion in funding to accelerate the development of a clean hydrogen technology. The legislation is intended to help begin the transition to clean hydrogen as both a fuel for manufacturing and as a transportation fuel.
It’s still early days, as potential hydrogen production centers have started cropping up, even as the technology to make economically competitive clean hydrogen is still maturing.
Several regions are putting in their shot to fulfill the Biden administration’s goal of reducing the cost of clean hydrogen by…