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St. Cloud seeks $3.5 million RDA appropriation for battery to enable green hydrogen demonstration
Summary
City of St. Cloud officials asked a House committee to lay over House File 2,366, seeking $3,500,000 from the RDA account to add a battery and microgrid controller that would enable green hydrogen production at the city's wastewater treatment facility.
The City of St. Cloud asked a House committee to lay over House File 2,366 after city officials and energy advocates described a project to produce green hydrogen at the city's wastewater treatment facility and requested a $3,500,000 RDA appropriation for a battery system and microgrid controller.
Tracy Hodel, public services director for the City of St. Cloud, said the project has been in development for three years and that an electrolyzer ordered for the site is expected to be delivered in the fall. Hodel said the facility already has multiple renewable-energy components, including four solar arrays and combined heat-and-power engines that run on biogas recovered on site.
Hodel told…
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