Outlook 2025: US hydrogen’s next inflection point
With a new president and new Congress imminent, attention must turn to the next stage of hydrogen development
After the passage of the Infrastructure Investment and Jobs Act of 2021 and the Inflation Reduction Act of 2022 by the 117th Congress, the US rapidly advanced the development of its domestic clean hydrogen industry and is aiming to become a global leader for this emerging sector. However, progress in putting steel in the ground has slowed. The supportive programmes and incentives within the laws—the Regional Clean Hydrogen Hub Program (H2Hub) and the Credit for Production of Clean Hydrogen (45V) being the cornerstones—were meant to provide much-needed certainty for project developers and investors to spur the scale-up of the nascent industry. Despite support from the Biden administration and
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