The California Energy Commission (CEC) is seeking applications for the Large-Scale Centralized Clean Hydrogen Production (H2CENTRAL) Program.
Donor Name: California Energy Commission (CEC)
State: California
County: All Counties
Type of Grant: Grant
Deadline: 06/03/2024
Size of the Grant: More than $1 million
Grant Duration: Grant Duration Not Mentioned
Details:
The purpose of this solicitation is to fund projects that advance the demonstration and deployment of clean hydrogen production, storage, delivery, and end use in California.
Hydrogen can serve as a zero-carbon energy carrier and act as a potential replacement for fossil fuels in hard-to-electrify applications, particularly for the transportation, industrial, and electricity generation sectors. For the purposes of this solicitation, clean hydrogen is defined as hydrogen produced from water using eligible renewable energy resources, as defined in Public Utilities Code 399.12, or produced from these eligible renewable energy resources.
Projects that emerge from this solicitation must meet the following objectives:
- Demonstrate or scale up clean hydrogen production, processing, delivery, and storage;
- Leverage existing technologies for large-scale production;
- Demonstrate cost-effectiveness of centralized hydrogen production, processing, delivery, and storage;
- Monitor and minimize hydrogen leakage; and
- Develop a hydrogen workforce.
Funded projects must demonstrate technologies for the purpose of:
- Hydrogen production, which must not have a carbon intensity greater than 0.45 kilograms carbon dioxide equivalent per kilogram of hydrogen produced using a well-to-gate boundary;
- Hydrogen storage, such as compressed gaseous tanks or cryogenic liquid dewars; and
- Hydrogen delivery, such as gaseous tube trailers or cryogenic liquified hydrogen trucks.
Project Focus
The overall goal of this solicitation is to support the adoption of commercially available hydrogen technologies and kickstart large-scale, centralized clean hydrogen production through demonstration and scale-up in California. The awards resulting from this competitive solicitation will address challenges and opportunities to deploy large-scale quantities of clean hydrogen at centralized locations by leveraging economies of scale and co-locating renewable energy resources to reduce overall system costs and distribute hydrogen to diverse end users. By deploying clean hydrogen production at a large scale, this endeavor can benefit communities, workforce, air quality, and natural environments should hydrogen be used to replace diesel, fossil gas, or other fossil fuels. Projects must avoid any benefit to facilities associated with fossil fuels, such as oil refineries. Additionally, offtakers must not be located on the same site as the production facility.
Funding Information
There is up to $45 million available for grants awarded under this solicitation for the Clean Hydrogen Program. The minimum funding amount for each project is $20 million. The maximum funding amount is $22.5 million.
Eligibility Criteria
This solicitation is open to all public and private entities, California Native American Tribes, and California Tribal Organizations.
For more information, visit CEC.
