Advancing the Clean Hydrogen Future Act of 2021
- Last Action
- 6/23/2021
Actions
- 2021-06-23Read twice and referred to the Committee on Energy and Natural Resources.
- 2021-06-23Introduced in Senate
CRS Summary
As of 2021-06-23 (00)
Advancing the Clean Hydrogen Future Act of 2021
This bill requires the Department of Energy (DOE) to establish a research, development, demonstration, and deployment program to improve the efficiency, increase the durability, and reduce the cost of producing hydrogen using electrolyzers. Electrolyzers are systems that produce hydrogen using electrolysis, a process that uses electricity to split water into hydrogen and oxygen. The goal of the program is to reduce the cost of hydrogen produced using electrolyzers to less than $2 per kilogram of hydrogen by 2026.
In carrying out the program, DOE must award grants for projects that DOE determines would provide the greatest progress toward achieving the goal. In addition, DOE must fund demonstration projects under the program to (1) demonstrate technologies that produce hydrogen using electrolysis; and (2) validate information on the cost, efficiency, durability, and feasibility of commercial deployment of those technologies.
Subjects
- Air quality
- Alternative and renewable resources
- Climate change and greenhouse gases
- Congressional oversight
- Electric power generation and transmission
- Energy prices
- Energy research
- Energy storage, supplies, demand
- Motor fuels
- Research administration and funding
- Research and development
- Technology transfer and commercialization
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