The HARVEST Hydrogen Hub Coalition is an alliance of public and private entities in Kansas — including Black & Veatch, Evergy, NextEra Energy and Enel Green Power, to name a few — that have a strong interest in the development of a productive hydrogen-based energy sector that supports a range of economic activity and acts as a hub for the future national hydrogen infrastructure.

The HARVEST hydrogen hub’s concept proposes to utilize industry investments of more than $1 billion and matching funds from the DOE to advance production and usage plans in three defined regions of the state. In so doing, it leverages several distinctive factors that position Kansas to be a uniquely productive leader in the nation’s hydrogen ecosystem, including:
–some of the lowest wholesale electrical generation costs in the nation, fostered by significant electrical generation from wind, solar and nuclear sources
–a strategic location in the center of the United States with a robust transportation infrastructure
–robust agricultural and industrial sectors that can readily consume derivative products made from hydrogen
–extensive underground storage potential in salt deposits that can be transitioned into storage caverns.