Hyundai Auto Canada Corp. (HACC) reports dual surveys it consecrated found some-more than three-quarters of Canadians trust hydrogen fuel dungeon vehicles are “the approach of a future.”

The automaker has begun prolongation and sales of a initial such crossover, a Tucson FCV, and says it teamed adult with researchers to get answers exclusively for a Canadian market.

Findings were around a “two-pronged” investigate investigate in partnership with Canadian investigate association Ipsos Reid and Offsetters, North America’s heading CO supervision company.

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Energy storage in hydrogen is a technically feasible option for grid-scale storage, and is already in pilot demonstrations. In order to examine the potential benefits and drawbacks of hydrogen as a grid-scale energy storage technology, through a collaborative study, scientists from Imperial College, Stanford University and Western Washington University have looked at the energy efficiency characteristics of storing energy in a regenerative hydrogen fuel cell (RHFC) using net energy analysis.

The study, which compares RHFC configuration, containing an alkaline water electrolyzer and a PEM fuel cell, to other storage technologies, concludes that the reference case RHFC system has a higher energy stored on invested (ESOI_e) ratio than lithium ion battery storage. This indicates that the hydrogen storage system makes more efficient use of manufacturing energy inputs to provide energy storage. However, lithium ion batteries remain energetically preferable when considering the operation of the system, as well as its manufacture, due to their higher round-trip efficiency (90%). The scientist report that this is reflected in the overall energy efficiencies of the two storage technologies: the overall energy efficiency of a typical lithium ion battery system is 0.83, compared to 0.30 for the reference case RHFC system.This highlights that in spite of its relatively efficient use of manufacturing energy inputs, the round-trip efficiency of a RHFC system needs to be improved before it can provide the same total energy benefit as other storage technologies. The authors report that improving the RHFC round-trip efficiency relies on electrolyzer and fuel cell performance.

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FuelCell Energy, Inc. FCEL, +1.01% a global leader in the design, manufacture, operation and service of ultra-clean, efficient and reliable fuel cell power plants, announces significant progress towards achieving commercial deployment of its solid oxide fuel cell (SOFC) technology, naming three projects selected by the U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) for funding support. The projects are designed to demonstrate performance and commercial-readiness, further reduce both product and manufacturing costs, and validate hydrogen production utilizing the SOFC technology in an electrolysis configuration.

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The International Energy Agency released the IEA Technology Roadmap for Hydrogen & Fuel Cells (30^th June 2015), outlining the critical steps to advance hydrogen and fuel cells in global markets. This IEA Technology Roadmap: Hydrogen and Fuel Cells outlines hydrogen is an energy carrier that partly offers the advantages of fossil fuels – flexibility and energy density – with potentially a low carbon footprint. As a storehouse of low-carbon energy, it offers a means to integrate high shares of variable renewable electricity into the energy system.

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The H2FC SUPERGEN hub is pleased to announce that Professor John Irvine, one of the co-directors of the hub, wins this year’s Sustainable Energy Award for his outstanding and sustained contributions to low carbon energy generation, in particular the development of electrode materials for solid oxide fuel cells.

The Sustainable Energy Award is for the contributions of chemical sciences to sustainable energy. This includes development or understanding of materials and processes and the improvement of existing technologies through the application of the chemical sciences.

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Scientists discussed  ‘Manufacturing Green Fuels from Renewable Energy’ at DTU Energy, Denmark, where Prof. Nigel Brandon, the director of H2FC SUPERGEN and the Sustainable Gas Institute gave a presentation titled Correlating microstructure and performance (15th April 2015). Professor Brandon explained the research motivations and needs for making durable Solid Oxide Electrochemical Cells (SOECs) to add to the discussions on different clean energy systems and the initiatives taken by different institutions around the world for developing these systems.

H2FC SUPERGEN are pleased to launch the UK’S first Hydrogen and Fuel Cell Research Capability Document.

This document aims to share capabilities and skills across the UK’s academic hydrogen and fuel cell research landscape.  Nearly 70 UK-based academics have contributed to this document, which spans the entire Hydrogen and Fuel Cell landscape. We hope that academics, industry and government both in the UK and further afield find this document useful and that it stimulates further collaboration.

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