Cleaner hydrogen production hubs in California, Pacific NW and Appalachian region—of seven picked last
year by to negotiate for hundreds of millions of
dollars in federal support to boost projects—are the first
to receive initial funding awards,
Construction is underway, with new contracts awarded, on the first phase of Sempra Infrastructure’s $13-billion Port Arthur LNG export terminal in Texas near the Gulf of Mexico, following the energy firm’s award to Bechtel Energy of an EPC contract to manage the two-train project.
States are scrambling to site small modular nuclear reactors under development and funded by $452 million in federal grants; four design concepts have been submitted by companies.