The Department of Transportation (DOT) and the Federal Highway Administration (FHWA) have announced that the Port of Houston Authority received almost $25 million in grant funds.
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The Department of Transportation (DOT) and the Federal Highway Administration (FHWA) announced on January 10th that the agency awarded nearly $25 million in grant funding to the Port of Houston Authority (Port Houston) as part of a public-private collaboration between Port Houston and Linde Inc. (Linde), a leading industrial gases company, with additional partners GTI Energy, Argonne National Laboratory, and Center for Houston’s Future.
This award will be used to construct and operate a hydrogen fueling station for heavy-duty trucks.
The project, Bayport HRS, will result in an innovative pipeline-based Hydrogen Refueling Station (HRS), which will offer high fueling throughput with convenient and publicly accessible fueling options, further enabling supply chain development in Texas and the Gulf-Coast region.
Linde will design, construct, own and operate the new facility, creating a cost-effective heavy-duty (HD)
truck hydrogen fueling station in Bayport, Texas.
This project will be a coordinated public-private collaboration between the public agency leading the most important and busiest port in the United States (Port Houston), a major industrial leader in HRS and hydrogen supply (Linde), a worldwide leader in energy innovation (GTI Energy), a non-profit with extensive experience in energy transition in Houston (Center for Houston’s Future, CHF), and a global leader in modeling hydrogen delivery infrastructure (Argonne National Laboratory, ANL).
The project supportsthe Port’s Sustainability Action Plan and ambitious goal of net-zero emissions
by 2050. It also aligns with national strategies for transportation decarbonization and clean
hydrogen. ■
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