New hydrogen hub will create 20,000 jobs and may power SEPTA buses and trash trucks

October 18, 2023

Pennsylvania Gov. Josh Shapiro said Tuesday that a new hydrogen hub announced by President Joe Biden last week could make the Philly region “the center of the clean energy universe” and create 20,000 union jobs in coming years. Hydrogen produced in the hub is expected to power 1,400 SEPTA buses and 300 Philadelphia garbage trucks in coming years. Philadelphia Gas Works is another possible location for a hydrogen project. And Shapiro said that Monroe Energy, which currently makes jet fuel at a refinery in Delaware County, has pledged to convert to “sustainable fuel production with the help of clean hydrogen.” A portion of those workers will be trained through unions in a partnership with local colleges and universities, including Cheyney, the oldest historically Black university in the nation, located in the Philadelphia suburbs.

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