Shortly after the Biden administration announced its $1 billion Build Back Better economic development challenge in July 2021, staffers at Greater New Orleans Inc. got to work.They began researching potential projects that could not only earn the federal funds, but put them to good use. Through a “vetting process that involved coffee and beer and wine,” as GNO Inc. President and CEO Michael Hecht put it, a clear possibility emerged: “green hydrogen,” or a more environmentally friendly form of a feedstock widely used in Louisiana’s industrial corridor.“So then we just started making phone calls and asking folks if they wanted to be part of the effort,” Hecht said.Those efforts were rewarded Friday when the U.S. Department of Commerce…
How ‘coffee, beer and wine’ led to a $50 million ‘green hydrogen’ grant for south Louisiana | Business News
