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.

History

The California Hydrogen Highway Network (CaH2Net) was initiated in April 2004 by Executive Order (EO) S-07-04 under Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger with the purpose of promoting hydrogen refueling stations in California.[1]

In September 2006, California Senate Bill 1505 required 33% of hydrogen to come from renewable energy,[2][3] and other initiatives followed.[4] As of 2007, 25 stations were in operation.[5] Some of these hydrogen fueling stations completed the terms of their government-funded research demonstration project and were decommissioned.[6] In 2012, there were 23 hydrogen fueling stations in California,[7] eight of which were publicly accessible.[8][9]

In 2013 Governor Brown signed AB 8, a bill to fund $20 million a year for up to 100 stations.[10][11] As of September 2017, there were 36 publicly accessible hydrogen fueling stations in California (and 4 elsewhere in the US).[12] According to CARB, "Assuming business-as-usual based on the funded network", about 45% of refueling hydrogen in California is projected to come from renewable sources, and "projected throughput of the 50 currently funded stations is less than 3.5 million kilograms per year.[13]

See also

References

  1. ↑ "California Hydrogen Initiatives". CARB. July 15, 2016. Retrieved April 7, 2017.
  2. ↑ "SB 1505: Environmental Performance Standards for Hydrogen Fuel". Retrieved 30 March 2017.
  3. ↑ http://www.leginfo.ca.gov/pub/05-06/bill/sen/sb_1501-1550/sb_1505_bill_20060930_chaptered.pdf
  4. ↑ "California Hydrogen Activities". CARB. Retrieved March 30, 2017.
  5. ↑ "California Fuel Cell Partnership".
  6. ↑ "Hydrogen Fueling Stations".
  7. ↑ Ingram, Antony. "RIP Hydrogen Highway? California Takes Back Grant Dollars", Green Car Reports, June 5, 2012
  8. ↑ "Stations", California Fuel Cell Partnership, 2012, accessed March 14, 2013
  9. ↑ Jones, Nicola. "Whatever happened to the hydrogen highway?", Pique, February 9, 2012, accessed March 17, 2016
  10. ↑ Bill AB 8, Signed by Gov. Jerry Brown (D) on September 30, 2013
  11. ↑ Xiong, Ben. "Governor Brown Signs AB 8" Archived 2013-12-02 at the Wayback Machine., California Fuel Cell Partnership, September 30, 2013
  12. ↑ Alternative Fueling Station Counts by State, Alternative Fuels Data Center, accessed September 13, 2017
  13. ↑ "2016 Annual Evaluation of Hydrogen Fuel Cell Electric Vehicle Deployment and Hydrogen Fuel Station Network Development (16 MB)" (PDF). CARB. July 2016. p. 63. hydrogen fuel dispensed in California is expected to contain on average 45% renewably-sourced hydrogen. This is substantially greater than SB 1505’s requirement of 33% for all stations receiving State funding. Additionally, the projected throughput of the 50 currently funded stations is less than 3.5 million kilograms per year.
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