- The Center for Clean Hydrogen partners with the University of Delaware.
- Clean hydrogen has a critical role to play in strengthening US industrial sector.
The Center for Clean Hydrogen has opened at the University of Delaware as part of a public-private partnership to solve the challenges of creating low-cost clean hydrogen and efficient hydrogen conversion.
The Center for Clean Hydrogen is a collaboration between the University of Delaware, the National Renewable Energy Laboratory, the Department of Defense, Chemours, and Plug, which formed the Clean Hydrogen Partnership.
Sen. Tom Carper, who helped steer funding for the centre, said, “Clean hydrogen has a critical role to play in strengthening our country’s industrial sector and moving us closer to net-zero emissions by 2050”. The Clean Hydrogen Partnership is designed to drive research focused on lowering the cost and acceleration of green hydrogen and fuel cells by enabling the discovery of innovative materials, stack designs, and manufacturing improvements.
The Center for Clean Hydrogen’s ability to test at scale will accelerate the adoption of new materials critical to meet the Energy Department’s Hydrogen Shot, which seeks to reduce the cost of clean hydrogen by 80% to $1 per kilogram in one decade. Further, students and post-doctoral employees from the University of Delaware will have the opportunity to do stack assembly at scale, thereby helping to build the next-generation clean energy workforce.