West Virginia, Pennsylvania, Ohio

www.arch2hub.com

This Hub will use the region’s low-cost natural gas to produce low-cost clean hydrogen. The Hub should create 21,000 jobs from a $925 million commitment.

California

www.ARCHESH2.org

This hub is focused on hydrogen from renewables. It will decarbonize transportation, heavy duty trucking, and ports.

ARCHESH2 has committed to expand opportunities for disadvantaged communities and create an expected 220,000 direct jobs from a US DoE $1.2 billion commitment. The California hub number of jobs is more than the rest of the hubs put together, and it will require Project Labor Agreements for all jobs connected to the hub. This will put a large number of people to work.

The ARCHESH2 Hub application is well supported by plenty of public and private partners, and many already started investments. As an example, SoCal Gas is planning the Angeles Link hydrogen pipeline from solar farms in the desert high country through LA to Long Beach, one of America’s largest ports, and a heavy ship, rail, and trucking pollution emitter. An early goal is to clean up these emissions. Hundreds of organizations support this Hub, including ours.

Texas, Louisiana

www.hyvelocityhub.com

This hub is focusing on large-scale hydrogen production through both natural gas with CCS and renewables-powered electrolysis. Using the Gulf Coast’s massive renewable energy potential and natural gas industry infrastructure, this hub should be able to drive down Green Hydrogen costs. This Hub is expected to create 45,000 jobs with a commitment of $1.2 billion.

Within this hub today is 33% of US hydrogen production, 1,600 miles of hydrogen pipeline, and some of the largest hydrogen storage caverns in the world. That last one may already be out of date. Massive salt and other storage caverns are being carved out of the earth around the world to store hydrogen in. Let’s make the point again; Hydrogen the molecule, and Hydrogen the industry move fast. We all need to keep up.

Minnesota, North Dakota, South Dakota

Their website? We don’t see one.

Search Excel Energy for their Press Release

This Hub will decarbonize production of fertilizer for agriculture, decrease the cost of clean hydrogen, and focus on electricity generation and heating. Because it gets really cold up there. This Hub should create more than 3,800 direct jobs from a commitment of $925 billion.

Pennsylvania, New Jersey, Delaware

www.midatlantichydrogenhub.com

This Hub will work on hydrogen-driven decarbonization in the Mid-Atlantic while repurposing existing oil infrastructure for hydrogen projects. The Mid-Atlantic Hydrogen Hub should produce 20,800 jobs from a commitment of $750 million. It will require Project Labor Agreements for all jobs connected to the hub and will work to develop an internship and community college training system.

Illinois, Michigan, Indiana

machh2.com

This hub will work to decarbonize steel & glass production for the automotive industry, power, refining, transportation, and aviation fuel. This Hub plans to produce Hydrogen with renewable energy, natural gas, and nuclear power. The Midwest Hydrogen Hub should create 13,600 jobs with a commitment of $1 billion.

A key point on their website is to Feed the Planet with Hydrogen. Ammonia, the key ingredient in fertilizers, is NH3, right? More Hydrogen means more ammonia. Man made fertilizer is used to feed half the people on the planet. So, agriculture in the American Midwest is big part of this Hub. Another is the transportation industry in Detroit, and manufacturing industries throughout the region. Most of the Midwest universities like the University of Illinois at Urbana are supporting this effort.

Oregon, Washington

pnwhydrogenhub.com

This Hub plans to use renewables exclusively to produce hydrogen, most of it from solar power. Widescale use of electrolyzers will drive down electrolyzer costs. This Hub is expected to create more than 10,000 jobs from a commitment of $1 billion.

This hub is unique in that it is largely supported and focused on one company, Obsidian Renewables. They are based in Oregon, look well-funded, and are focusing on Hydrogen for energy use. They have completed many large solar projects and have a 400 MW solar project on the board ready to power Hydrogen electrolyzers. The Northwestern US has the cheapest grid electricity in the country, so it is a huge server farm area for major tech companies. Your Facebook, Microsoft, Amazon, and Yahoo electrons may be powered by their Hydrogen molecules.