Empire State Development and Linde, a leading global industrial gas and engineering company, announced that the company will invest more in its Niagara Falls facility to start creating hydrogen fuel.The new 35-MW Proton Exchange Membrane Electrolyzer plant, planned for Linde’s facility at 4501 Royal Ave., will be the largest such plant for Linde globally and double its green liquid hydrogen production capacity in the United States. It is planned to start production in 2025.The plant will replace a proposal announced last year for producing hydrogen at the same site, which would have been 22-MW, cost $17 million, and start production in 2023. That included Empire State Development tax credits of up to $671,000 through the Excelsior Jobs Program and a…
