37. Neil Banwart, CIO, Midwest Alliance for Clean Hydrogen

You get a billion! And you get a billion! And YOU get a billion! (repeat 4 more times).

The Department of Energy recently announced seven recipients of a total $7 billion who will build hydrogen hubs around the U.S.  The auto and steel sectors, concentrated around Michigan, Indiana and Illinois, are covered by the Midwest Alliance for Clean Hydrogen (MachH2).  Neil Banwart, MachH2’s CIO, talked with Ali Tabibian about how the hub will use scale to demonstrate the economics of hydrogen across diversified production methods and applications.  We discussed green, blue, pink and white hydrogen, and applications in heavy-duty transportation, marine and air travel.  We touched on the program’s commitment to social justice as the Inflation Reduction Act prescribes.

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Host: Ali Tabibian of GTK Partners.

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