HOUSTON — A Department of Energy official said Thursday that DOE hopes to reach final agreements with all of its “clean” hydrogen hubs this year, but it may be “many years” before some projects tied to the hubs break ground.
James Haug, the department’s associate director of hydrogen hubs, said projects remain in the conceptual phase as lawyers, companies and local officials hammer out basic details of what the hubs could look like.
“I think people believe that we’re much further ahead than we are,” he said about the hub program on the sidelines of the Gastech energy conference here.
DOE’s program was created by the 2022 bipartisan infrastructure law, which earmarked $7 billion to create a network of regional networks across the country to produce, use and transport the fuel.
