Biden-Harris Administration Announces $62 Million to Support America's Growing Hydrogen Industry

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Original Source: https://www.energy.gov/eere/fuelcells/selections-hydrogen-and-fuel-cell-technologies-office-funding-opportunity-0

On August 30, 2024, in support of the Biden-Harris Administration's Investing in America agenda, the U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) announced nearly $62 million for 20 projects across 15 states to accelerate the research, development, demonstration, and deployment of next-generation clean hydrogen technologies.

These projects will advance critical elements of hydrogen fueling infrastructure, develop and demonstrate hydrogen-powered container-handling equipment for use at ports, and improve processes essential to the efficient, timely, and equitable deployment of hydrogen technologies. Among the selected projects are innovative, first-of-a-kind efforts to improve community engagement and ensure the benefits of the clean energy revolution are felt by all Americans.

Building a strong and equitable domestic clean hydrogen economy is a key pillar of President Biden and Vice President Harris' plan to strengthen America's economic competitiveness, create new good-paying, high-quality jobs, and slash harmful emissions that jeopardize public health and pollute local ecosystems. This vision is embodied in the U.S. National Clean Hydrogen Strategy and Roadmap, which is being implemented through a whole-of-government approach coordinated by the Hydrogen Interagency Task Force

Selection for award negotiations is not a commitment by DOE to issue an award or provide funding. Before funding is issued, DOE and the applicants will undergo a negotiation process, and DOE may cancel negotiations and rescind the selection for any reason during that time.

Location of Selected Projects

The information in the map is provided here: https://www.energy.gov/eere/fuelcells/selections-hydrogen-and-fuel-cell-technologies-office-funding-opportunity-0 in the searchable table of funding selections.


Topic Areas

Award and cost share amounts are subject to change pending negotiations.

The selected projects fall into five topic areas.

Topic 1: Components for Hydrogen Fueling of Medium- and Heavy-Duty Vehicles
Number of projects: 4
Award amount: $8.5 million
Selected projects will develop advanced components that will enable gaseous and/or liquid hydrogen fueling at refueling stations for medium- and heavy-duty hydrogen-powered vehicles.

Topic 2: Standardized Hydrogen Refueling Station of the Future
Number of projects: 4
Award amount: $40 million
Selected projects will develop and demonstrate a low-cost, standardized, and replicable advanced hydrogen fueling station of the future that can meet the needs of commercial scale medium- and heavy-duty truck fueling.

Topic 3: Hydrogen Fuel-Cell Powered Port Equipment
Number of projects: 1
Award amount: $2.5 million
Selected projects will design, develop, and demonstrate hydrogen fuel cell port equipment such as cargo-handling equipment or shore power to docked vessels.

Topic 4: Enabling Permitting and Safety for Hydrogen Deployment
Number of projects: 7
Award amount: $7 million
Selected projects will determine the primary challenges to siting, permitting, and installation across the value chain from hydrogen production through end-use and help identify opportunities to address them.

Topic 5: Equitable Hydrogen Technology Community Engagement
Number of projects: 4
Award amount: $3.9 million
Selected projects will conduct engagement activities with a disadvantaged community to gain better understanding of their concerns and provide them with important information about hydrogen and related technologies.

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1. Best President of my Lifetime

President Joe has been and still is Transformational.

[Caribbeans]

2. Thinking Different

There was a time when literally everyone was encouraged to eat margarine instead of butter.
Didn't turn out so well.

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3. It's going to take a huge force of effort to...

...to turn our energy economy away from the fossil fuel industry, but once we start building momentum, that force will be unbreakable.

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6. Ah, the old, Theranos "I'm like Steve Jobs" game. Shades of fraudster Elizabeth Holmes...

Elizabeth Holmes wrote personal notes to herself about ‘becoming Steve Jobs’ as Theranos collapse began

Hydrogen is a scam to increase the use of fossil fuels, period.

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7. Except that Green Hydrogen...

...the stuff this anouncement deals with, doesn't increase the use of fossil fuels.

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4. I don't know. I'm all for clean energy but -

- the last I knew large scale Hydrogen production was fueled by carbon based fuels, natural gas I believe. If there have not been further developments in hydrogen production that I am not aware of, it sounds to me like we're only transferring the carbon pollution from the end user to the producers.

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5. Ding! Ding! Ding! The scheme is to rebrand fossil fuels as hydrogen, a scam that will make things worse, not better.

It's a crime against the future that this scam has been successfully sold by advertising.

A Giant Climate Lie: When they're selling hydrogen, what they're really selling is fossil fuels.

Exxon rebranding fossil fuels as hydrogen:

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10. Are you saying Biden is PERSONALLY scamming...

...or is the entire Dept. of Energy in on the scam?

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8. Yes, the Biden-Harris support programs...

....target GREEN HYDROGEN, which doesn't involve the use of fossil fuels in any way, not even in the electricity used in it's production.

Pro-fossil fuel hacks will continue to spread lies about Hydrogen, and solar, and wind, and anything else that will keep us hooked on fossil fuels, but tge truth is we need to build out these Green tools as much and as quickly as possible.

Green Hydrogen does not use fossil fuels, or emit CO2, in any way.

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9. Here's a quick video...

...that explains the different ways Hydrogen CAN be made, it's why the Biden Administration focuses their support on "Clean" (Green) H2...

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If someone tries to tell you H2 can only be made from fossil fuels, they are trying to convince you not to consider one of the technologies we must use to eliminate CO2, they are trying to stall the transition AWAY from fossil fuels.