Energy Department Invests $20 Million to Advance Hydrogen Production

The Energy Department on June 16 announced $20 million for ten new research and development plans that will advance hydrogen production and delivery technologies. Developing technologies that can economically produce and deliver hydrogen to power fuel cells from diverse, domestic, and renewable resources can enable substantial reductions in energy use and carbon emissions.

The Department's national labs will research 4 of the projects. The National Renewable Energy Lab will gain $3 million to develop high-efficiency tandem absorbers based on novel semiconductor materials that can produce hydrogen from water using solar energy. Oak Ridge National Lab will gain $2 million to demonstrate a low-cost, steel-concrete composite vessel for high pressure hydrogen storage. Pacific Northwest National Lab will gain $2.2 million to develop a reactor for hydrogen production from bio-derived liquids. And Sandia National Labs will gain $2.2 million to develop an innovative high-efficiency thermochemical reactor for solar hydrogen production. In addition, the Department awarded backing to FuelCell Incorporated of Danbury, Connecticut; the University of Colorado at Boulder; the University of Hawaii of Honolulu, Hawaii; Nuvera Fuel Cells Incorporated of Billerica, Massachusetts; the Southwest Research Institute of San Antonio, Texas; and Wiretough Cylinders LLC of Bristol, Virginia. See the Energy Department news release and the Department's Hydrogen and Fuel Cells webpage.

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