The U.S. Department of Energy’s (DOE) Fuel Cell Technologies Office (FCTO) has made significant progress in advancing and reducing the cost of hydrogen and fuel cell technologies. With the rollouts of fuel cell electric vehicles (FCEVs) by major automotive manufacturers underway, enabling technologies for the widespread production of affordable, sustainable hydrogen becomes increasingly important. In addition, providing materials based options for the delivery and on-board storage of hydrogen that can meet consumer demands of range and price while alleviating the precooling and compression requirements at the stations is critical. EERE has recently launched the Energy Materials Network (EMN), a network of national lab-led consortia aimed at accelerating the development and commercial deployment of novel materials by enhancing the accessibility of unique material research resources at the national laboratories to external stakeholders, such as academia and industry. This presentation will provide an overview of the FCTO’s Hydrogen Production, Delivery, and Storage Programs and discuss the chemical challenges their associated EMN consortia, Advanced Water-Splitting Materials (HydroGEN) and Hydrogen Materials – Advanced Research Consortium (HyMARC), are addressing. In addition, the presentation will describe related activities involved in FCTO’s H2@Scale concept, which explores the potential for wide-scale hydrogen production and utilization in the United States to enable resiliency of the power generation and transmission sectors.

U.S. Department of Energy activities in hydrogen production, delivery, and storage

255th National Meeting (2018)

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