The Biden administration has selected clean-energy projects from Pennsylvania to California for a $7 billion program to kickstart development and production of hydrogen fuel. The White House wants to establish seven regional “hydrogen hubs” to help replace fossil fuels such as coal and oil with cleaner-burning hydrogen as an energy source for vehicles, manufacturing and generating electricity.
The Minnesota-based Heartland hub will receive upwards of $925 million dollars to decarbonize fertilizer used in agriculture to produce clean hydrogen for delivery to multiple markets including cold climate space heating.
The University of North Dakota’s Energy & Environmental Research Center (EERC), Marathon Petroleum Corp., TC Energy and Xcel Energy are leading development of the Heartland project.
“We thank the Department of Energy for recognizing Heartland Hydrogen Hub’s commitment to the federal government’s goals for clean hydrogen,” said Charles Gorecki, CEO at the EERC. “We look forward to advancing the ‘all-of-the-above’ approach that the hydrogen energy transformation enables.”
Governors of four states signed a memorandum of understanding in October 2022 to develop a regional clean hydrogen hub: North Dakota…Minnesota…Montana…and Wisconsin.
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