Perry Babb

CEO
KeyState Energy - Developer
Biography: 

Perry Babb has 42 years of organizational development experience, having founded multiple successful companies in business services, construction, energy, marketing, and 3 non-profit corporations, with strategic humanitarian work in a dozen countries. Mr. Babb is president and founder of KeyState Energy and a leading voice in the new energy economy. KeyState Energy is Developer of the ‘Atlantic Coast Clean Hydrogen Corridor’, currently comprised of 2 revolutionary natural gas synthesis and carbon storage projects, ‘KeyState Pennsylvania’ and ‘KeyState Virginia’, each projected to reach commercial operations in 2028 & 2029 respectively. Additional project announcements upcoming. These $2 billion complexes integrate innovative onsite natural gas extraction which avoids 99% of conventional upstream emissions, onsite synthesis of ultra-low-carbon hydrogen by separating 99%+ of carbon from hydrogen in methane and returning the CO2 back deep underground, all with zero-carbon onsite power generation. These facilities will produce some of the world’s lowest carbon, lowest cost hydrogen at large scale. Products vary by site, but include hydrogen for the mobility market, ammonia for industrial processes, and co-products of urea for fertilizer and for diesel exhaust treatment.

Of note, this months, KeyState Natural Gas Synthesis & CCUS was selected by DOE as part of the ARCH2 Hydrogen Hub awards and lands KeyState squarely in America’s coming hydrogen economy. www.KeyState.net

Mr. Babb holds a BA in Sociology from James Madison University and is a published author in 7 languages. He and his wife and business partner of 43 years, Jacqueline, live mostly on Hatteras Island with their genius dog, Bentley.