Texas has plenty of the ingredients needed to support a major buildout of hydrogen and carbon capture and storage (CCS), including abundant natural gas, extensive energy infrastructure and access to international markets, but another essential input — water — could prove harder to secure, according to a new report by the Institute for Energy Economics and Financial Analysis (IEEFA).
Hydrogen is expected to be one of the fastest-growing pieces of the global energy puzzle through 2050 but remain a small fraction of the overall energy mix, according to McKinsey’s recently published Global Energy Perspective 2026.
Hydrogen is taking on a broader strategic role in the global energy system, with energy security and industrial growth increasingly joining decarbonization as drivers of investment, according to the Hydrogen Council’s recently published report, Global Hydrogen Compass 2026.
Construction is underway at Blue Point One (#32 in map below), a low-carbon ammonia plant in Modeste, LA, billed by the joint venture’s partners — CF Industries (40%), JERA (35%) and Mitsui (25%) — as the world’s biggest of its kind. The plant will have an annual capacity of 1.4 million MT and is expected to begin production in 2029.
Steelmaker Cleveland-Cliffs will spend $1 billion to modernize the blast furnace at its Middletown, OH, facility, a total that includes a $500 million Department of Energy (DOE) grant originally intended to support a hydrogen-focused decarbonization project, the company said August 21. The revised project will reline and upgrade the blast furnace while installing a cogeneration plant for the Middletown site.
Air Liquide will invest more than $160 million to build, own and operate a new large-scale production facility to supply ultra-high-purity gases, including hydrogen, to a new semiconductor fabrication plant in Arizona.
Global hydrogen demand grew by almost 3% in 2025 to surpass 100 million metric tons (MT), concentrated in traditional industrial uses and refining, the International Energy Agency (IEA) said in its recently published Global Hydrogen Review 2026.
Twelve’s AirPlant One, which it bills as the first commercial-scale facility in the U.S. to produce sustainable aviation fuel (SAF), has begun operations in Moses Lake, WA, the company said June 10. Referred to by Twelve as E-Jet fuel, it is an alternative to traditional jet fuel made from carbon dioxide (CO2), renewable electricity and water.
Plug Power said June 2 it has closed on the sale of a federal Investment Tax Credit (ITC) for ~$39.2 million associated with its hydrogen liquefaction facility in St. Gabriel, LA, (operated through Hidrogenii, its joint venture with Olin Corp. The St. Gabriel facility was commissioned in April 2025 and can liquefy up to 15 tons of hydrogen per day.
Exploits Valley Renewable Energy Corporation (EVREC) said May 18 that it filed the Environmental Impact Statement (EIS) for its project in Central Newfoundland. The project would reuse brownfield lands, repurpose the Port of Botwood (the closest deepwater port in North America to Europe) and harness the region’s wind resources to produce green hydrogen and ammonia.
