United Energies Development Corporation, a wholesale industrial retail gas producer and alternative energy company, announced it has finally broken the cost barrier to making green hydrogen from electrolyzing water. The company is constructing the photovoltaic and electrolyzer hybrid facility using technology originally designed for NASA. 

"We start with ultra-pure water, turning it into 99.9998% pure hydrogen and oxygen gas using a large photo-voltaic array," said Denis Luz, United Energies CEO. "Today all hydrogen comes into Arizona by tanker or rail from California, where the nearest hydrogen generation facilities are located. We are able to eliminate that transport cost, bringing H2 production costs to $1.33 kg/H2 at an electricity cost of $.05 kWh. Our equipment uses only 1.2 MW/hr to make 1,077 kg/H2 a day."

United Energies will be using technology that weakens the molecular bond of water before splitting it. By reducing the energy of the water itself to near zero, an electrical charge can separate it with lower input power, utilizing alternative sources such as wind, tidal, or in this case solar, lowering the cost of production.  United Energies will store both solar and off-peak electricity at night, and sell it back to the utility when it is required by regulatory agencies or when they are being strained to capacity.