I don't know, I've read a few articles on it and nothing I've seen points to it being a case where they're specifically planning on using excess renewable generation to produce hydrogen. It sounds more like they're proposing subsidizing purpose-built generation to get the costs of hydrogen production down.
That said, that doesn't mean it won't reduce emissions. There are some industries (particularly heavy industry) that can't viability use utility-provided electricity for good chunk of their operations, whereas green hydrogen could conceivably fill that need. And long term, once the infrastructure is in place to produce hydrogen cheaply and more renewables come on line, hydrogen absolutely could be used as a store of power (though the end-to-end efficiency is pretty miserable).
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