A bipartisan bill introduced on Tuesday by Reps. Paul Tonko, D-N.Y., and Stephanie Bice, R-Okla., would authorize additional research and development into clean hydrogen and fuel cell technologies at the Department of Energy.

The bill, the Department of Energy Clean Hydrogen and Fuel Cell Research, Development and Demonstration Act of 2022, would establish a “national Hydrogen Innovation Center to focus on fundamental research and development activities.”

It authorizes DOE programs that would work toward goals like improving stationary fuel cells to more than 80,000 hours of durability and improve the “use of hydrogen and hydrogen blends in the production of iron, steel, cement, fertilizer, chemicals, and energy-dense fuels,” said a press release.

A similar bill, called the Clean Hydrogen Energy Act, was introduced in the last session of Congress but did not receive a vote.

Read more here.