HIF secures permit for Matagorda efuels facility
The developer aims to complete financing and begin construction in 2024
Efuels developer HIF Global has received a permit from the Texas Commission on Environmental Quality for the construction and operation of its planned facility in Matagorda County. The facility is expected to produce and use 300,000t/yr of green hydrogen as well as 2mn t/yr of CO₂ captured from the atmosphere. “In Texas, we are taking efuels to the next level of commercial scale, and we are now permitted to construct the largest efuels facility in the world, to produce approximately 200mn gallons per year of shipping fuel and e-gasoline, the equivalent of decarbonising over 400,000 cars on the road today,” says Meg Gentle, executive director of HIF’s board. The company expects to complete fi

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