Cleaner hydrogen production hubs in California, the Pacific NW and the Appalachian region—of seven DOE picked last
year to negotiate hundreds of millions of
dollars in federal project support—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.
