About 100 miles from Niagara Falls, where Nikola Tesla’s hydroelectric power plant design—a landmark in renewable energy—was first implemented (way back in 1895), a hydrogen energy solutions provider called Plug Power is building out one of this century’s most ambitious energy projects: a green hydrogen highway.
Green hydrogen is created using only renewable energy such as wind, solar, and hydroelectric to power the electrolyzers that separate water into hydrogen and oxygen using anodes and cathodes. The Albany-based Plug makes those, along with the fuel cells that convert hydrogen fuel and air into electricity. Currently, most hydrogen is made using natural gas—via steam method reformation—to power the electrolyzers, but Plug hopes the green variation will catch on as countries and companies try to reach carbon neutrality.
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