United States Hydrogen Alliance Blog

For decades, hydrogen has been discussed primarily as an energy carrier—a fuel produced from other energy sources such as natural gas, water electrolysis, or biomass. But a growing body of scientific research is challenging that assumption. What if hydrogen is not only something we manufacture—but something we can discover naturally within the Earth itself?

United States Hydrogen Alliance (USHA), first founded as the Western States Hydrogen Alliance, has focused primarily on hydrogen policy education and advocacy across the country. These activities brought the organization to fundamental questions around how to assess the maturity of a state’s conceptualization, capacity, and implementation of policies related directly and indirectly to hydrogen.

As hydrogen benefited from increased federal policy support during the Biden Administration, a critical question began emerging across the United States: Are states policy-ready to support large-scale hydrogen deployment?

Hydrogen is often discussed as a future technology, but it is already embedded in the American economy—supporting fertilizer production, refining, industrial processes, and critical power systems. What is changing is not hydrogen’s relevance, but the scale and pace of its deployment.