(Washington DC / USA) – The US government wants to drastically reduce the costs of clean hydrogen technologies. The Department of Energy (DOE) is providing $750 million (708 million euros) for this purpose as part of the infrastructure law.
Led by DOE's Hydrogen and Fuel Cell Technologies Office (HFTO), the yet-to-be-identified projects will address underlying technical barriers to cost reduction that cannot be overcome through scale alone.
US Secretary of Energy Jennifer M. Granholm / © Department of Energy, DOE
Initiated by the Biden administration and signed by the US President in November 2021, theInfrastructure Investment and Jobs Act(IIJA) led to power struggles between Democrats and Republicans. This means that funds amounting to 2026 trillion dollars (1,2 trillion euros) will be available for investments in transport, environmental and energy projects by 1,13.
Biden has announced his goal of achieving a 2035 percent clean electricity grid by 100 and reducing carbon emissions to zero by 2050. The funding is "a critical part of the administration's comprehensive approach to accelerating the widespread use of clean hydrogen" and will "play a critical role in supporting the large-scale deployment of hydrogen," said US Energy Secretary Jennifer M. Granholm. However, hydrogen is also described as “clean” in the USA if the electricity used to produce it comes from nuclear power plants.
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