Butte seeking legislation to entice plant that would turn Montana water into green energy

Butte’s chief executive was in Helena this week to support House Bill 170 that would classify green hydrogen as an energy source and tax it. It’s a step necessary before Mitsubishi power could consider locating in Montana.

“It could be up to 1,000 plus jobs of construction that would go into this plant in the five years of the construction phase and then a hundred residual jobs that area here permanently,” said Gallagher.

Butte is hoping a company called Mitsubishi Power will locate near the Mining City and manufacture a green energy source from Montana’s water.

“It would be a huge economic impact and projected to be over a billion dollars of investment into Southwest Montana,” said Butte Chief Executive J.P. Gallagher.

The plant would extract green hydrogen from water as a power source for Montana.