St. Cloud Looking to be World Leader in Green Hydrogen Production

ST. CLOUD — St. Cloud has a plan to become the first city in the entire world to produce green hydrogen at its wastewater treatment facility.Public Services Director Tracy Hodel says we are partnering with another city in Germany on the project so it will be somewhat of a race to see which city gets it up and running first.St. Cloud has just applied for a nearly $1.1 million state grant to help pay for the $3 million project. Hodel says the city already has a lot of the infrastructure in place including the engines, aeration system, solar arrays, and the digestion process. The piece of equipment the city needs to buy is an electrolyzer, along with a place to store the hydrogen fuel they produce, and a way to transport the fuel.The electrolyzer brings in water and then separates it into hydrogen gas and oxygen gas. The oxygen gas would be used on-site to lower overall costs.With the…

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