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A leading global supplier of industrial gasses
is emphasizing two of what were originally 6
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federally backed hydrogen projects amid
questions about the future of the funding under
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the Trump administration.
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Air Laquied, the French industrial gas provider
and the parent of air gas,
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was selected to be part of the development of 6
clean hydrogen hubs by the US Department of
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Energy in 2023.
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And was slated to receive $7 billion under a
sweeping infrastructure funding law signed in
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2021.
Reuters reported that funding, however,
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was frozen by the new Trump administration, and
it remains unclear when or if the
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congressionally approved allocations will be
issued.
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A the Queen’s CEO Francois Jacco told reporters
on a recent call that two of the six projects
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appear more likely to move forward than the
other.
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The two hubs in question would produce hydrogen
from natural gas while capturing the resulting
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carbon emissions, Jacko said.
Air liquid and oil and gas giant ExxonMobil
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continued to work on a low carbon hydrogen and
ammonia project at the latter’s Baytown,
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Texas plant, although its fate also has not
been decided absolutely.
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The remaining projects, he said, were more
likely to depend on the administration’s
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policies toward renewable.
Energy overall.
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Although the changes in Washington appear
likely to dent air liquid’s hydrogen operations
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in the US, Sheco was more optimistic about its
other investments in the country,
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which includes supplying gasses to forthcoming
semiconductor fabs and electric vehicle battery
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plants.
He added that newly imposed tariffs were
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unlikely to have much of an effect on its
businesses in the US.
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I’m Andy Sall.
This is manufacturing now.