Webinar | HyBuild™ North America Contracts Workstream Kickoff

The Green Hydrogen Coalition (GHC) launched its HyBuild™ North America initiative in 2020 to accelerate the development of scaled green hydrogen (GH2) hubs.

To date, the HyBuild North America initiative has architected two regional hubs at scale, focused on Southern California, HyBuild Los Angeles, and the Carolinas, HyBuild Carolinas. The GHC’s analysis indicates that scaled GH2 hubs are achievable, delivering mass-scale renewable hydrogen at <$2/kg at the pipeline.

Overview of HyBuild North America Contracts Workstream

The GHC is launching its next HyBuild North America initiative to help support clean and GH2 market liftoff nationally. Jointly led by Sheppard Mullin, a national clean energy transactional law firm, the Contracts Workstream will engage with potential at-scale GH2 buyers throughout the U.S. to identify the issues, requirements, and allocation of risks that must underpin hydrogen purchase agreements, including regionally specific considerations. Our goal is to synthesize findings into a high-level framework that can be shared publicly to accelerate the green hydrogen market liftoff.

Overview of HyBuild North America Contracts Workstream Webinar

The webinar provided an introduction to the GHC, an overview of the HyBuild North America Initiative, and launch of the Contracts Workstream, co-led by Sheppard Mullin and featuring special guest speaker Paul Browning, Founder, CEO, and Board Director of Continuum Renewables and Co-Founding Partner of Energy Transition Finance, LLC.

In his former role as CEO of Mitsubishi Power Americas, Paul successfully led the financing of ACES Delta, the largest GH2 project in North America and the first successful DOE Loan Program Office financing in more than a decade. Paul will be sharing lessons learned from contracting and closing this historic first-of-its-kind project.

The webinar also included remarks from HyBuild North America Advisors.

  • Tony Toranto, Partner, Sheppard Mullin (HyBuild North America Contracts Workstream Co-Lead)

  • Janice Lin, Founder and President, Green Hydrogen Coalition (Moderator)

  • Tim Barry, Director – Strategy, Commercial & Operational Excellence, Ramboll (Advisor to Contracts Workstream)

  • Paul Browning, Founder, CEO and Board Director, Continuum Renewables; ​Co-founding Partner, Energy Transition Finance LLC ​ ​

  • Danny Seagraves, Senior Managing Partner, Brown & Brown (Advisor to Contracts Workstream)

  • Cihang Yuan, Senior Program Officer of Climate and Energy, World Wildlife Fund (Advisor to Contracts Workstream)

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