California Hydrogen Highway

The California Hydrogen Highway is a planned series of hydrogen refueling stations in California. These stations are used to refuel hydrogen vehicles such as fuel cell vehicles and hydrogen combustion vehicles.

As of July 2007, twenty five stations were in operation.[1] Some of these hydrogen fueling stations completed the terms of their government-funded research demonstration project and were decommissioned.[2] As of January 2011, between 25 and 30 were in operation, mostly in and around Los Angeles.[3] In June 2012, the California Energy Commission revoked $27 million in grants for hydrogen filling stations after complaints that the companies authorized to use most of the grant money had largely self-dealt the contracts. By that time, the number of Hydrogen filling stations in the state had declined to 23,[4] and only eight of these were "publicly accessible".[5]

In November 2013, The New York Times reported that there were "10 hydrogen stations available to the public in the entire United States", eight of which were in "Southern California and ... one in Emeryville".[6] In 2013 Governor Brown signed AB 8, a bill to fund 20 million a year for 10 years for up to 100 stations.[7] In May 2014 the California Energy Commission funded $46.6 million for 28 stations.[8]

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References

  1. ↑ "California Fuel Cell Partnership".
  2. ↑ "Hydrogen Fueling Stations".
  3. ↑ "Filling the Tank with Hydrogen". Berkely Transportation Letter. University of California at Berkeley. Winter 2011. Retrieved January 21, 2011.
  4. ↑ Ingram, Antony. "RIP Hydrogen Highway? California Takes Back Grant Dollars", Green Car Reports, June 5, 2012
  5. ↑ "Stations", California Fuel Cell Partnership, 2012, accessed March 14, 2013
  6. ↑ Berman, Bradley. "Fuel Cells at Center Stage", New York Times, November 24, 2013, p. AU1
  7. ↑ Governor Brown Signs AB 8
  8. ↑ "California investing nearly $50 million in hydrogen refueling stations", California Energy Commission, May 1, 2014

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