The investment will support the Bill Gates-owned BEC Catalyst, a programme within the larger Breakthrough Energy network, is a new model for public-private sector partnership that brings together businesses, governments, philanthropists and individuals to invest in critical climate technologies.

Read more: £400m partnership between Bill Gates’ Breakthrough Energy and the UK Government to support clean energy technologies including hydrogen

This programme focuses on four key green technology areas: green hydrogen, long-term energy storage, sustainable aviation fuels and direct air capture.

This could help enhance the hydrogen economy with the catalyst programme expected to support innovative technologies and solution within this sector.

Because of this it could also lead to greater adoption of the clean energy carrier.

North American Hydrogen Summit  

H2 View is taking its events platform to America’s original clean hydrogen hub of California. Together with the California Fuel Cell Partnership (CaFCP), we will stage our North American Hydrogen Summit in San Francisco on July 14-15.

As our summit theme Building Bridges: Hydrogen hubs and investment suggests, the event will explore the $8bn of funding announced to create at least four regional hydrogen hubs in the US. These hubs will turbo-charge the nation’s progress toward heavy trucking and industrial sectors that run without producing carbon pollution – and they may just provide the path forward to a hydrogen-fuelled future.

With California and Texas vying to be America’s hydrogen capital today, where are the hubs of tomorrow? Further still, what can other states, and countries, learn from California’s success story? And how can we build bridges to a successful flow of international investment?

If you are a member of the CaFCP, be sure to grab your ticket at a discounted rate with a code that can be provided to you by the events team.

Full information about this event including attendance and sponsorship packages can be found here.