West Virginia Will Be Home To New Hydrogen Project

Fidelis New Energy (Fidelis) has selected Mason County, West Virginia, as the location of its net-zero carbon hydrogen production facility, a hydrogen-powered and cooled data center, and a greenhouse system utilizing waste heat and captured CO2. Known as The Mountaineer GigaSystem and the Monarch Cloud Campus, the facility will be implementing FidelisH2 technology that, according to Fidelis, enables production of hydrogen with zero lifecycle carbon emissions from a combination of natural gas, renewable energy, and carbon capture, utilization, and sequestration (CCUS).

The project consist of four phases, with each phase producing over 500 metric tons per day (MTPD) of net-zero carbon hydrogen at an approximate capital cost of US$2 billion per phase excluding associated investments in data centers, greenhouses, etc. The first FidelisH2 phase of the Mountaineer GigaSystem is expected to commence operations in 2028. The hydrogen will be used for a variety of purposes including carbon neutral hyperscale datacenters, greenhouses, transportation, and steel production.

Fidelis selected Battelle Carbon Services, a carbon storage site development company, to drill and collect stratigraphic test well data, acquire seismic data and to submit multiple sequestration permit applications in West Virginia.

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