A bipartisan group of Appalachian governors is coming together to focus on hydrogen and its uses in the future as a fuel and energy source. The group is part of several around the country working to secure funding from the U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) to fund regional hydrogen hubs.
The Appalachian Regional Clean Hydrogen Hub (ARCH2) came together as a part of a bipartisan infrastructure bill passed in Congress in 2021, which allocated $7 billion to the DOE to create regional clean hydrogen hubs (H2Hubs) around the U.S. as a part of “America’s future clean energy economy.”
The H2Hubs are meant to bring jobs to local economies through “clean energy investments,” while adding to the nation’s energy security, according to the DOE, a part of President Joe Biden’s goal of “a net-zero carbon economy by 2050.”…