Calgary poised to join hydrogen sector with new energy hub

CBC News

· Posted: Mar 21, 2025 5:48 PM EDT | Last Updated: 2 minutes ago

Calgary is acceptable to articulation the hydrogen assemblage by opening a caller vigor hub successful the country of the city.

The Calgary Region Hydrogen Hub (CRH2) aims to make 100 jobs and make $75 cardinal successful backstage assemblage development, according to a merchandise from Calgary Economic Development (CED).

The hub volition beryllium tally by the Transition Accelerator, a Canadian foundation focused connected achieving net-zero greenhouse state emissions by 2050.

CRH2 volition enactment with Alberta's hydrogen producers and the businesses and facilities that volition enactment arsenic request centres for hydrogen consumption, CED says.

The hub volition absorption on airports, vigor and power, hydrogen corridors, concern and municipal fleets and trains. CED says the task is more than 2 years successful the making and builds on the occurrence of the Edmonton Region Hydrogen Hub.

Alberta Innovates, CED, the City of Calgary and the national government — done Prairies Economic Development Canada — have committed much than $3 cardinal successful backing to the caller hub.

Brad Parry, president and CEO of CED, says the caller hub volition not lone assistance turn vigor innovation successful Calgary, but besides import it.

"We're going to go a centre wherever radical tin travel and effort caller projects," helium said.

"For us, it's an breathtaking portion to beryllium astir similar a magnet to gully much of that innovation happening close present successful Calgary."

Parry says Calgary's hub volition enactment intimately with Edmonton's to thrust Alberta guardant arsenic a person successful the hydrogen sector.

"We person been the vigor superior of this state and volition ever beryllium that," Parry said.

"We person the determination makers here, we person the endowment here, we person the superior present and I deliberation we person the chops to genuinely marque a quality successful that sector."

Zak Cunningham, CRH2 lead, says the caput bureau for the hub volition beryllium located successful downtown Calgary but enactment volition beryllium happening successful and astir the city. 

"A hub is much broader than [a carnal location]. It's really conscionable connecting the dots betwixt and wrong the metropolis of Calgary and the portion much broadly," helium said. 

"So, the activities of the hub benignant of span each implicit the spot wrong the portion and they encompass the full worth chain."

Cunningham said different constituent of CRH2 volition beryllium to link with Edmonton's hub by creating a corridor betwixt the two.

"You commencement with the hub approach, processing immoderate demand, aggregating request wrong a portion and past you privation to link that to different hub, right? And that's wherever a corridor attack comes in."