Canada is investing $4 billion, without public funding, to build a Shawinigan, Que. plant producing “green” hydrogen, a fuel used to reduce dependence on hydrocarbons in industry and heavy transport.
“This is the first green hydrogen project in the country,” said federal Innovation Minister François-Philippe Champagne at a press conference in Shawinigan on Friday morning, accompanied by Quebec’s Economy and Energy Minister Pierre Fitzgibbon.
The plant’s main customer will be Énergir, which will use the hydrogen to produce around one-fifth of its 115 million cubic meters of renewable natural gas (RNG) by 2030.
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