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US energy policy took a sharp U-turn after President Donald Trump returned to office last year, but it’s a big world out there. Global investors and clean tech innovators keep working their way into the US, and the pipeline is reciprocal. Take the massive new green hydrogen project under way in Morocco, for example. It’s getting an assist from US stakeholders in the private sector, which is no surprise. What is surprising is a key contribution from the Trump administration.
A Tiny Contribution To A Massive Hydrogen Project
The contribution from the US government comes in a form of a modest grant to the Moroccan joint venture ORNX through the US Trade and Development Agency, an independent agency of the federal government permanently authorized by Congress in 1961.
In a press release dated July 28, USTDA notes that the funds are earmarked for preliminary studies leading to a “large-scale ammonia production plant in Morocco’s southern provinces.”
