French firm Air Liquide will spend more than $150m building a liquid hydrogen plant in California. It is the first large-scale investment in the supply chain infrastructure aimed at supporting hydrogen energy solutions, ahead of the deployment of 40,000 fuel cell electric vehicles in the state by 2022. The project was announced on Tuesday and involves two separate facilities – one for manufacturing hydrogen, which can be used to produce gasoline, diesel or jet fuel, and another that produces hydrogen. Air Liquide has also signed a long-term take-off agreement with retail hydrogen infrastructure leader FirstElement Fuel, and is set to make an investment in the US company.
French firm Air Liquide will spend more than $150m building a liquid hydrogen plant in California. It is the first large-scale investment in the supply chain infrastructure aimed at supporting hydrogen energy solutions, ahead of the deployment of 40,000 fuel cell electric vehicles in the state by 2022. Work on the plant is set to begin next year and, when complete, will have a daily capacity of almost 30 mt, enough to fuel 35,000 fuel cell electric vehicles. Air Liquide has also signed a long-term take-off agreement with retail hydrogen infrastructure leader FirstElement Fuel, and is set to make an investment in the US company.