By Mike Tony, The Herald-Dispatch
CHARLESTON, W.Va. — An affiliate of a company that West Virginia officials awarded a forgivable $62.5 million loan in 2023 for a proposed Mason County hydrogen plant has filed a state air quality permit application for a hydrogen production facility in the county near the Ohio River.
Houston-based MGS H2 1 LLC is planning to build and operate a 265-million-standard-cubic-feet-per-day hydrogen production facility near Point Pleasant, according to the company’s air quality permit application received by the West Virginia Department of Environmental Protection on Aug. 7.
MGS H2 1 shares its Houston address with Fidelis New Energy LLC. In 2023, the West Virginia Economic Development Authority approved a forgivable $62.5 million loan with a three-year term for Fidelis subsidiary Mountaineer GigaSystem LLC, which was formed to develop a hydrogen production facility in the Point Pleasant area.
