Texas Aims To Revive All-But-Dead Green Hydrogen Industry

The US green hydrogen industry was all but killed in its cradle earlier this year, when US President Donald Trump’s new energy policy knocked the stuffing out of the Regional Clean Hydrogen Hubs initiative, a $7 billion Biden-era program intended to diversify the nation’s supply of hydrogen, a key industrial and agricultural input.

Still, signs of life continue to emerge, and one of them has emerged in Texas. Earlier this week the US green hydrogen startup SunHydrogen reminded everyone that its hydrogen-producing solar panels are being installed at the Hydrogen ProtoHub demonstration and research facility at the J.J. Pickle Research Campus at the University of Texas at Austin.

The ProtoHub launched in April of 2024 under the umbrella of the school’s Center for Electromechanics, with support from the energy solutions consulting firm Frontier Energy and the independent not-for-profit corporation GTI Energy.