The firm has said it will initially target the Canadian market, leveraging on the nation’s renewable energy resources, and the recent announcement that the Canadian Government will provide $547.5m of funding to incentivise the use of heavy-duty zero emission vehicles.

First Hydrogen says it is planning to develop an end-to-end ‘hydrogen as-a-service’ model to offer its customers green hydrogen fuel, refuelling stations, and zero-emission commercial vehicles, to accelerate the creation of zero-emission eco-system solutions.

Coming as part of its strategy to develop green hydrogen production in regions with strong policy support for the clean energy carrier, the announcement of its North American expansion, follows on from plans to develop green hydrogen production capacity in the UK.

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H2 View understands once it has entered to the Canadian market, the firm plans on establishing itself in the US, where hopes are high for low-carbon hydrogen producers to receive up to $3 per kg in tax credits.

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Rob Campbell, Director and CEO of First Hydrogen Energy, said, “Canada is an ideal place to develop green hydrogen facilities given its abundant renewable energy resources and rapidly improving policy landscape for green hydrogen.

“First Hydrogen Energy has the people, partners and plans to become a major green hydrogen provider in key regions and has a compelling strategy to offer both green hydrogen and commercial vehicles to use the hydrogen.

“Project development in the United States will quickly follow given the new support for green hydrogen provided at state and federal levels. Now is the time to start building out this important infrastructure.”

In pursuit of its North American expansion, First Hydrogen says it has retained ARUP Canada to provide engineering consulting services in relation to the develop of its Canadian projects.

Additionally, Balraj Mann, CEO of First Hydrogen, commented, “Green hydrogen presents an opportunity for Canada to take charge in leading the G7 nations in decarbonisation.

“Our bountiful renewable energy resources combined with green hydrogen can materially reduce our carbon emissions and help meet our country’s goal of Net Zero emissions by 2050.  With our strong team, we possess the ability to make our contribution to Net Zero.”