Our View: Solar powered hydrogen plant a win for region

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    "title": "Our View: Solar powered hydrogen plant a win for region",
    "excerpt": "Our view: solar powered hydrogen plant a win for region.\n\n* 14 hrs ago\n\nThumbs up to Centerpoint Energy and community partners public and private for boosting the idea of building a solar energy-powered hydrogen plant in Mankato that could help mix renewable energy into the local natural gas pipeline.\n\nIt will be the first such plant in the state for Centerpoint that runs on solar power.\n\nAnother hydrogen conversion project has been operating in Minneapolis since June 2022 using traditional electrical energy.\n\nThe $7.4 million Mankato project makes sense as it can be developed on land Centerpoint already owns on North Riverfront Drive to house the 1 megawatt solar array.\n\nAn electrolyzer will convert water into its base elements and be a 5% blend of hydrogen gas into the natural gas supply in the area.\n\nThe innovative plant is another piece, albeit small, of providing the local grid with energy that can be clean and relatively cheap.\n\nThe hydrogen will only replace about 5% of the natural gas but could be expanded to a 20% blend.\n\nThere will also be a possibility to store the hydrogen energy and make it accessible via portable tanks that could be used at larger Mankato industrial users of natural gas.\n\nOn cloudy days or at night, the hydrogen plant will rely on traditional electricity from the grid.\n\nThe city of Mankato recently approved the project and may benefit itself for...",
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