The Pacific Northwest Hydrogen Hub will span Washington, Oregon, and Montana, and plans to leverage the region’s abundant renewable resources to produce clean hydrogen exclusively via electrolysis.

The Pacific Northwest Hydrogen Hub’s vast use of electrolyzers will play a key role in driving down electrolyzer costs, making the technology more accessible to other producers, and reducing the cost of hydrogen production.

The Pacific Northwest Hydrogen Hub aims to remove approximately 1.7 million metric tons per year of CO2 emissions through a transition to clean hydrogen across hard-to-decarbonize areas.

These hard-to-decarbonize areas include heavy-duty transportation, where clean hydrogen will help address a key mobile source of nitrous oxide emissions. The Hub’s plan for hydrogen fuel cell vehicle expansion in heavy-duty trucking will be carried out in conjunction with the California Hydrogen Hub’s parallel efforts.

This will help enable development of a West Coast freight network that addresses refueling gaps and further clean transportation expansion. Other hydrogen uses include agriculture (fertilizer production), industry (generators, peak power, data centers, refineries), and seaports (drayage, cargo handling), where it will serve to decarbonize some of the highest emission drivers in the region.

In October 2023, the Office of Clean Energy Demonstrations announced the project was selected to receive up to $1bn in DOE funding. In July 2024, the hub announced it would receive an initial amount of up to $27.5 million in federal funding.

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