HIF Global, an e-fuel manufacturer, has announced that it received authorization for the construction and operation of the HIF Matagorda eFuels facility in Texas. According to HIF, the plant will be able to produce 200 million gallons of shipping fuel and e-gasoline which will require approximately 300,000 tons of green hydrogen and 2 million tons of recycled carbon dioxide. Although the company didn’t reveal the scale of the electrolyzer plant and the required renewables scale, according to Rethink calculations the scale of the operation will require 3.3 GW of electrolysis capacity backed up by upwards of 7 GW of renewable energy. In a world where there is not necessarily a concern but rather an unrest over how fast renewables and…