ARCH2 gets $30M for hydro­gen hub; crit­ics call it a ‘boon­dog­gle’

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ARCH2 gets M for hydrogen hub; critics call it a ‘boondoggle’

(The Cen­ter Square) — The fed­er­al gov­ern­ment cut its first check for a mul­ti-state exper­i­ment to build a hydro­gen-based man­u­fac­tur­ing and ener­gy hub in Appalachia, send­ing $30 mil­lion to ARCH2.
The team behind the Appalachi­an Region­al Clean Hydro­gen Hub expects up to $925 mil­lion from the Depart­ment of Ener­gy to spear­head devel­op­ment.
“This fed­er­al fund­ing will unlock bil­lions of dol­lars in pri­vate sec­tor invest­ment to cre­ate thou­sands of well-pay­ing jobs in Appalachia’s emerg­ing hydro­gen econ­o­my,” ARCH2 offi­cials said in a press r …