Danish firm moves state into hydrogen economy [Video]

A Danish chemicals firm’s more than $400 million investment in a new Chesterfield County plant will bring Virginia into the business of making hydrogen as a clean energy source.

The Topsøe Holding A/S plant will make a new kind of hydrogen fuel cell, one that the company says can generate clean energy for fossil-fuel users like steel mills and shipping companies that cannot simply electrify operations and that generate nearly a third of the world’s greenhouse gases.

Topsøe detailed plans for the plant, which will employ 150, at a news conference at its Denmark headquarters with Gov. Glenn Youngkin, who was in the country Wednesday as part of a four-nation trade mission.

“Their decision to build a cutting-edge factory, the next generation of manufacturing, to build in Chesterfield County and …