Lewis County Clean Energy Campus gets $1 million more in grants
CENTRALIA, Wash. -- November 12, 2026 -- The Lewis County Hydrogen Alliance, Inc. (LCH2) has been awarded an additional $1 million from TransAlta Centralia Board Funding, LLC to advance the Lewis County Clean Energy Campus, lifting total grant support to $1.4 million. By FairsOnline's calculation, the new award is 2.5 times the roughly $400,000 provided before it and makes up about 71% of the total.
The money comes through the Energy Technology Board under the Centralia Coal Transition Grants program.
Grant money now covers site control, permitting and financing work
The new funding pays for site control, engineering, permitting, feedstock-supply and product-offtake agreements, and project-financing work. The first stage covered feedstock and logistics, the site-selection pathway, concept-level process engineering and permitting. That work supported a recommendation to advance, according to LCH2.