Virginia

Topsoe, a Danish clean energy company, announced plans to build the nation’s largest SOEC, or Solid Oxide Electrolyzer Cells, factory in Virginia. SOECs are essential to producing clean hydrogen and other alternative energy sources. This project will reduce carbon dioxide emissions by up to two million tonnes, the equivalent to removing 400,000 gas-powered vehicles from the roads per year. The historic investment, made possible through $136 million in federal tax credits from the Inflation Reduction Act, will create thousands of jobs, reduce emissions, and help make Virginia a leader in a cleaner, greener future.

NewDEAL alum and U.S. Representative Jennifer McClellan (D-VA) praised this new Topsoe facility for creating “hundreds of new jobs and stimulat[ing] millions of dollars in economic activity right here in Virginia’s Fourth [District].”