Energy Department Launches H2 Refuel H-Prize Competition

The Energy Department on October 29 announced the launch of the $1 million H2 Refuel H-Prize. This two-year competition challenges U.S. engineers and entrepreneurs to develop affordable systems for small-scale, non-commercial hydrogen fueling.

These plans will continue to deploy hydrogen infrastructure across the country to support more transportation energy options for U.S. consumers, including fuel cell electric vehicles (FCEVs). Successful entries will install and test systems that generate hydrogen from resources accessible at most homes, like electricity or natural gas, and provide the hydrogen to fuel vehicles. This competition projects to offer a $1 million cash prize to the team that demonstrates the best system.

In the 1st year of the competition, teams are tasked to find partners, design a system, find a location to install the system, and register for the competition before submitting data and designs to a team of independent judges. The judges will select the top teams as finalists to advance to the testing phase. During the 2nd year, finalist teams have 7 months to build, install, and prepare their systems for testing. The winner will demonstrate that they can meet both the technical and cost criteria as outlined in the final guidelines. The H2 Refuel H-Prize will be administered by the Hydrogen Education Foundation for the Energy Department. See the Energy Department news release.

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