- GHI announces a new green hydrogen project.
- The utility plans to produce clean rocket fuel for Elon Musk’s SpaceX.
US start-up Green Hydrogen International (GHI) is set to construct a 60GW renewable H2 project in South Texas powered by wind and solar, with its salt cavern for storage. In addition, the utility plans to produce clean rocket fuel for Elon Musk’s SpaceX.
Upon completion, the project in Duval County would produce over 2.5 million tonnes of green hydrogen a year, equivalent to approximately 3.5% of global grey hydrogen production today.
It will be centred around a hydrogen storage facility in the Piedras Pintas Salt Dome, with pipelines to the port cities of Corpus Christi and Brownsville on the Mexico border, where SpaceX’s Starbase is located. “The company is looking at combining hydrogen with CO2 at the Port of Brownsville to create a green methane rocket fuel for launch operations in South Texas,” GHI said.
SpaceX is currently developing a new type of rocket engine called SpaceX Raptor that would use cryogenic liquid methane and liquid oxygen rather than the kerosene-based fuel the company has used. The first 2GW phase of Hydrogen City is due to begin operations in 2026, with two storage caverns in the salt dome.