As hydrogen fuel-cell vehicles roll out in increasing numbers, so must the infrastructure that fuels them. To this end, a new project launched by the U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) and led by Sandia National Laboratories and the National Renewable Energy Laboratory (NREL) will work in support of H2USA, the public-private partnership introduced in 2013 by DOE and industry stakeholders to address the hydrogen infrastructure.

Established by DOE’s fuel cell technologies team in the Office of Energy Efficiency and Renewable Energy, the Hydrogen Fueling Infrastructure Research and Station Technology (H2FIRST) project will draw on existing and emerging core capabilities at the national labs aim to reduce the time and cost to construct fuel stations, increase station availability and improve station reliability.

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