Early Fuel Cell Market Demonstrations
Hydrogen PEM fuel cells are leading candidates for use in fuel cell vehicles. Today's commercially available PEM fuel cells are particularly appropriate for low-power applications requiring intermittent backup.
Early fuel cell market demonstrations are focused primarily on using fuel cell technologies for material handling, backup power, and prime-power applications. The Department of Energy-sponsored demonstration projects support fuel cell market transformation activities and help foster the growth of fuel cell markets. In addition, the Department of Defense funds early fuel cell demonstration projects.
NREL receives operational data from these early market fuel cell demonstrations, analyzes, and reports on these data. By aggregating data across numerous industry teams and sites, NREL develops composite data products (CDPs), which provide relevant data results on the technology status and fuel cell performance without revealing proprietary data. These publicly available CDPs will help the development community understand the state of fuel cell technologies, identify areas for continued improvement, and provide data metrics that are important to the business case for these fuel cell markets.
Presentations and Publications
Some of the following documents are available as Adobe Acrobat PDFs. Download Adobe Reader.
- Data Collection & Analysis for ARRA Fuel Cell Projects (PDF 581 KB). J. Kurtz, T. Ramsden, K. Wipke, S. Sprik. Presented at the Department of Energy's Recovery Projects Kick-Off Meeting, New Cumberland, PA. (August 2009)
Contact: Jennifer Kurtz 303-275-4061
