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Energy Department Funds Fuel Cells

by Andrea Widener
October 19, 2015 | A version of this story appeared in Volume 93, Issue 41

The Department of Energy is boosting its investment in fuel-cell technologies with $20 million for 10 projects. Of the newly funded efforts, seven focus on early research into areas such as hydrogen production using microbial biomass, low-platinum-group metal catalyst development, and hydrogen delivery pipeline manufacturing. The remaining three projects support higher-level development of mobile hydrogen fueling stations and fuel-cell-powered range extenders for hybrid electric vehicles. The projects “will continue to make advances in our rapidly expanding portfolio of hydrogen and fuel-cell technologies,” says David Danielson, assistant secretary for energy efficiency and renewable energy. Fuel-cell sales in 2014 totaled an unprecedented $2.2 billion, nearly $1 billion more than in 2013, according to a report released by DOE in conjunction with the awards. The report estimates that more than 50,000 fuel cells were shipped worldwide in 2014.

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