L.A. Aims to be First to Power U.S. City With Green Hydrogen (1)

Los Angeles is aiming to become the first city in the nation to use renewable hydrogen to produce electricity, with the goal of ending the use of carbon-based natural gas entirely.

The city has a two-step plan to replace 1,900 megawatts of coal-fired generation produced at a Utah power plant owned by the Intermountain Power Agency. The first step: Build a pair of gas-fired units able to produce 840 megawatts using natural gas by 2025. The goal then is to link the units to a $1 billion storage project adjacent to the plant where hydrogen, one of the planet’s ...