Industrial gases company Air Liquide has opened its largest liquid hydrogen production and logistics infrastructure facility in North Las Vegas, Nevada.
The firm invested $250 million in the facility, which will produce 30 tons of liquid hydrogen per day.
The hydrogen will be used by customers in the clean mobility market on the West Coast, especially California, and the plant configuration will facilitate the sale of hydrogen to different sectors with renewable and low-carbon options. It will generate sufficient renewable hydrogen for more than 40,000 fuel cell vehicles in California.
Moreover, the facility will be powered by renewable electricity and can use renewable natural gas to supply to the mobility market, meeting the California Low Carbon Fuel Standard.
The facility will contribute to Air Liquide’s goal of tripling hydrogen sales to nearly $6.5 billion by 2035.
“Air Liquide has supported the clean mobility market on the west coast since its infancy and the North Las Vegas facility is a milestone in our decades-long leadership of the U.S. hydrogen market,”
Michael Graff, Chairman & CEO of American Air Liquide Holdings, Inc. and Executive Vice President, Air Liquide Group said. “This facility is an illustration of our commitment, and ability, to usher sustainable markets into the future, while creating jobs and fostering economic growth in the present. By providing a reliable supply of hydrogen to California’s mobility market and the region’s industrial customers, we are making a significant investment in the transition towards a more sustainable future, one with hydrogen at its core.”
Hydrogen is a light gas which does not emit carbon pollution when burned. It must be created through steam reforming of methane gas, which is carbon intensive, or by electrolyzers separating the H2 from water.
