Japan and the U.S. to collaborate on hydrogen fuelling technology
The U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) and Japan's New Energy and Industrial Technology Development Organization (NEDO) have announced a collaboration on hydrogen and fuel cell safety research and development.
The two institutions will share data and collaborate to accelerate progress in hydrogen technologies with mutual goals of energy security, resilience, and economic growth. In line with this collaboration, DOE's Fuel Cell Technologies Office has announced that SimpleFuel, winner of the $1 million H2 Refuel H-Prize, is exporting one of the world's first hydrogen refuelling appliances to Japan.
The H2 Refuel H-Prize competition challenged America's innovators to deploy an on-site hydrogen generation system to fuel hydrogen vehicles, which can be used in homes, community centers, small businesses, or similar locations. SimpleFuel's home scale refueling appliance can provide a 1-kilogram fill to vehicles in 15 minutes or less at 700 bar using hydrogen produced via electrolysis, with a cost-effective design that minimizes setback distances and reduces the physical footprint of the system, according to the DOE.
SimpleFuel is a collaboration of three companies: IVYS Energy Solutions (Massachusetts), McPhy Energy N.A. (Massachusetts), and PDC Machines (Pennsylvania).
