The Saskatchewan government is ramping up development work on a potential hydrogen hub in the Regina-Moose Jaw area.

A news release from the province says the Ministry of Energy Resources, Whitecap Resources and Federated Co-operatives Limited will support a foundation report study that will provide investors with a through-analysis of commercial-scale hydrogen opportunities along with carbon capture utilization and storage in the province.

The hydrogen market is expanding globally with increasing use in power generation, transportation fuel and feedstock in the chemical industry.

The study will be developed by the Transition Accelerator and the Saskatchewan Research Council.

The province has provided the Transition Accelerator with a grant of $100,000 dollars to complete the report. An additional $50,000 dollars will provided by FCL and Whitecap Resources.

The Transition Accelerator (TA) is a pan-Canadian charity that creates positive, transformational system changes that solve societal challenges while moving Canada to reach net-zero greenhouse gas emissions by 2050. TA launched Canada’s first two hydrogen hubs in the Edmonton’s Industrial Heartland Region and in the southeast Alberta Region.