H2 Refuel: An Opportunity to Win $1 Million & Provide Momentum for FCEV Market Entry

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1 H2 Refuel: An Opportunity to Win $1 Million & Provide Momentum for FCEV Market Entry Fuel Cell Technologies Office 1 Annual Merit Review Washington D.C. June 9, 2015 Katie Randolph Sarah Studer Fuel Cell Technologies Office U.S. Department of Energy

2 Fuel Cell Electric Vehicles are on U.S. Roads Now! Fuel Cell Technologies Office 2 Announced for commercial sale in the U.S. Now Leasing Toyota Mirai Fuel Cell Vehicle Hyundai Tucson Fuel Cell SUV Click to see video of Secretary Moniz driving an FCEV In Auto Shows Honda Fuel Cell Electric Vehicle 6/30/2015

3 Status of H 2 Infrastructure Nationwide 1500 mi. of H 2 pipeline >9M metric tons produced/yr ~50 stations (~10 public) Fuel Cell Technologies Office 3 States CA- 100 stations, ~$100M planned through State MOU- 3.3M ZEVs by 2025 Northeast states, Hawaii Centralized H 2 Production Facilities (source: NREL) H 2 stations in CA (source: CAFCP) NE states, California and Hawaii have H2 infrastructure efforts underway

4 H-Prize competition Fuel Cell Technologies Office 4 Challenging America s innovators to develop on-site systems to generate and dispense hydrogen to fuel vehicles at homes, community centers or small businesses. The Winning Entry Gets $1 Million! Year One Year Two Beyond Teams form, develop plans, and submit designs by October 29, Finalists are announced in December 2015, and will prepare their entries, and start testing in early Summer Open houses will let the public get a peek! The competition closes October 31, Technical and cost data will be analyzed to select the $1 million winner. Want to compete? Interested in seeing what teams are doing? Looking to join a team? For more information, to sign up for updates, or register, visit

5 The Competition: The Goal: /30/2015 Timeline Fuel Cell Technologies Office 5 Deploy an on-site hydrogen generation system that uses electricity or natural gas and can be used in homes, community centers, retail sites or similar locations to fuel hydrogen vehicles. The best entry, based on technical and cost criteria, wins $1 million! October October December June- October December Competition opens: Contestants have one year to find partners, design a system, test components, find a place to install the system, and register for the prize Contestants submit data and designs, and a team of independent judges selects finalists to enter the testing phase Finalists are announced and they have 7 months to build, install, and prepare systems for testing Remote and on-site testing data collection for the technical criteria Independent financial experts evaluate the cost criteria Open house to let the public get a peek at the entries! Data analyzed and H-Prize winner announced

6 Finalists Scoring Criteria Fuel Cell Technologies Office 6 Entries must meet the basic criteria (e.g., safety requirements), and will be scored based on both Financial and Technical criteria Because some of the criteria are considered more critical, the criteria have different weights adding up to a total of 50 points Criteria Weight Scoring Range Home Community Dispensing pressure bar to 700 bar Dispensing time (1 kg) 1 10 hr. to 30 min. 60 min. to 3 min. Standard fills per day 1 1 to 5 5 to 50 Tested availability 2 80% to 98% Installed system cost 2 $25k/kg to $5k/kg $15k/kg to $5k/kg Direct user cost per kg 1 $20 to $8

7 H2 Refuel H-Prize Data Collection Fuel Cell Technologies Office 7 Why is the data needed? Allows for accurate assignment of points to finalist contestants competing in the H2 Refuel H-Prize competition, ensuring fair judging of all systems NREL will collect system data and provide impartial measurements of system performance to the H-Prize judges How will it be collected? Finalists required to install provided data collection system (DCS) At least two months worth of operational data must be collected

8 Key Dates Fuel Cell Technologies Office 8 Poster: Tonight! PD128 Great opportunity to ask questions and meet other interested parties General Webinar: June 25, 2015 Safety Webinar: Late Summer Designs must be deemed reasonably safe to qualify for finalist stage Registration Deadline: October 22, 2015 Design Information Submission Deadline: October 29, 2015 For more information or to register visit