This document discusses California's plans to develop hydrogen fueling infrastructure to support fuel cell electric vehicles (FCEVs). It notes that 68 initial hydrogen stations are needed to enable an FCEV market launch, and 100 stations will be needed to support market growth. Recent legislation guarantees $20 million annually through 2023 to achieve 100 stations. As of 2014, 9 stations were open, 19 were under development, and funding was proposed for 28 additional stations. The California Energy Commission has provided over $90 million for hydrogen infrastructure projects. Various state agencies and organizations are working collaboratively to support the development of hydrogen fueling stations and FCEVs in California.
3. Stations must come first
• 68 stations provide coverage to enable
market launch
» Supports customer convenient fueling in early
markets
» Enables travel throughout early market regions
and state
• 100 stations to support market growth
Map of 68 Hydrogen
Fueling Stations:
Existing, In Development
and Needed
4. H2 station funding
• AB 8 signed into law by Gov. Brown
» Extends funding for important air quality
and alternative fuel programs
» Guarantees $20M annually through 2023 to
achieve 100 hydrogen stations in California
» Annual survey, evaluation and reporting
• H2 funding provision increases certainty
that stations will be in place to support
early market FCEVs
5. H2 station progress
• 9 stations open
• 19 stations in development,
construction or commissioning
• 28 stations plus mobile fueler
recently proposed for funding
• http://cafcp.org/stationmap
6. C A L I F O R N I A E N E R G Y C O M M I S S I O N
Hydrogen Infrastructure
Funding to Date = $90 million
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• 45 new stations ($72.7 million)
• 3 station upgrades ($6.7 million)
• 4 O&M grants ($1.2 million)
• 1 mobile fueler ($0.9 million)
Other funding support
• AC Transit Oakland station ($3 million)
• CDFA DMS retail dispensing ($4 million)
• UC Irvine STREET model ($1.5 million)
• GO-Biz ZEV infrastructure project manager support
7. C A L I F O R N I A E N E R G Y C O M M I S S I O N
H2 Station Grant Summary
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Developer No. of
Stations
Technology and Type Capacity
(kg/day)
100%
Renewable H2
First Element 17 Delivered H2 180
2 Delivered H2 180 Yes
Air Products 10 Delivered H2 180
Linde 7 Delivered Liquid H2 350
Air Liquide 1 Delivered H2 180
1 Delivered H2 180 Yes
HyGen 3 On-Site Electrolyzer 130 Yes
ITM 2 Electrolyzer + Delivery 100 Yes
Ontario CNG 1 On-Site Electrolyzer 136
HTEC 1 Electrolyzer + Delivery 135
8. C A L I F O R N I A E N E R G Y C O M M I S S I O N
Emeryville – AC Transit
Cupertino
Foster City
Mountain View
*West Sacramento
Open
In Development
Northern CA
Hydrogen Stations
May 2014
Managed by BKi
Campbell
Hayward
Mill Valley
Oakland
Palo Alto
Redwood City
*Rohnert Park
San Jose
San Ramon
Saratoga
South San Francisco
*Truckee
Woodside
Announced
*Not shown on map
9. C A L I F O R N I A E N E R G Y C O M M I S S I O N
California Fuel Cell Partnership
www.cafcp.org/stationmap
Southern CA
Hydrogen Stations
Burbank
Fountain Valley – OCSD
Irvine – UC Irvine
Los Angeles - Harbor City
Los Angeles - West LA 1
Newport Beach – Shell
*Thousand Palms – SunLine Transit
Torrance – Shell
Anaheim
Chino (upgrade)
Diamond Bar (upgrade)
Irvine - UC Irvine (upgrade)
Irvine - Walnut Ave.
Lawndale
Los Angeles – Cal State LA
Los Angeles - West LA 2
Los Angeles – Westwood
Los Angeles - Woodland Hills
Los Angeles - Beverly Blvd.
Mission Viejo
Redondo Beach
San Juan Capistrano
Santa Monica 1
Open
In Development
*Coalinga
Costa Mesa
La Canada Flintridge
Laguna Niguel
Lake Forest
Long Beach
Los Angeles – LAX
Los Angeles - 9
Los Angeles -10
Ontario
Orange
Pacific Palisades
*Riverside
*San Diego
*Santa Barbara
South Pasadena
Announced
*Not shown on map
10. • California ZEV Action Plan
• ZEV Infrastructure project manager in GO-Biz
• Hydrogen policy group
» Governor’s Office, ARB, CEC, GO-Biz
• Interagency H2 station workgroup
• H2 Station “Green Team”
• H2USA member
• 8-State ZEV Action Plan
State agency actions
11. Selling hydrogen as fuel
• Field testing to determine practical meter accuracy
• Adopt additional accuracy classes that sunset over time
• Enable legal commercial sale of H2 by the kg
» Temporary use permit
» Certificate of approval
13. Fuel cell buses and trucks
• 16 fuel cell buses
• >1.5M miles in service
• >2.5M passengers carried
• FCEB roadmap
• 40 bus fleets
• 12-year operation
• <$1M per bus
• MD/HD roadmap
• In process
14. CaFCP members
Air Liquide
Air Products
Alameda-Contra Costa Transit District
(AC Transit)
Automotive Fuel Cell Cooperation
BAE Systems
Ballard Power Systems
California Air Resources Board
California Department of Food and
Agriculture
California Energy Commission
California State University-Los Angeles
The Center for Energy Efficiency and
Renewable Technologies (CEERT)
Chrysler
Daimler
Energy Independence Now
General Motors
Honda
Hydrogenics
Hyundai
ITM Power
Institute of Transportation Studies, UC Davis
Linde North America, Inc.
National Fuel Cell Research Center, UC Irvine
National Renewable Energy Laboratory (NREL)
Nissan
Powertech Labs
Proton OnSite
Sandia National Laboratories
South Coast Air Quality Management District
Southern California Gas Company
SunLine Transit Agency
Toyota
U.S. Department of Energy
U.S. Environmental Protection Agency
University of California, Berkeley
US Hybrid
Volkswagen
Notas do Editor
Good afternoon. California takes seriously the challenge of reducing carbon emissions to protect the climate, improving air quality to protect public health and diversifying our transportation fuels to reduce petroleum use. The state has adopted strong policies to meet ambitious goals in all three areas, and fuel cell electric vehicles are essential to meeting these goals.
We are making good progress and I’m pleased to have the opportunity to give you some highlights.
FCEVs are coming to market this year and next. Just last week I met Tim Bush, the State Farm agent and his family who have the first commercial lease of a Tucson Fuel Cell. Also last week SunLine Transit agency took delivery of 2 new all-American fuel cell buses to add to the 2 buses already carrying passengers every day in the Coachella Valley. And one of my staff received an offer to participate in a market survey on FCEVs from Toyota. Yes, its really happening!
But hydrogen fuel stations must come first. In 2012 the California Fuel cell Partnership published a roadmap to define the minimum number of stations needed in the state to offer convenient fueling for customers in the first 5 early market areas. 68 stations provides the coverage to give customers fuel within a 6 minute drive time in their communities, plus sufficient connector and destination stations to enable them to fully utilize the vehicle for all their travel needs. 100 stations puts California on a path to a self-sustaining market for hydrogen as a vehicle fuel. The roadmap identifies locations, actions and funding needs to achieve these goals. That was two years ago. So how are we doing?
In September 2013 the State Legislature passed and Governor Brown signed a bill, AB8, to re-authorize funding for clean vehicle and alternative fuel programs through the ARB and CEC. The CEC administers approximately $100M per year to provide grants and other support for a portfolio of alternative fuels, including hydrogen. Given the need for assurance that stations would be built to support market launch of FCEVs, AB8 guarantees at least $20M per year for hydrogen. There are checks and balances to ensure FCEV projections are in line with expenditures for stations. The first annual report will be available June 30.
Here’s an overview of the state, and you can see the clusters of stations forming in Southern California and the SF Bay Area. We have 9 stations currently open, another 19 in various stages of development, construction and commissioning, and 28 new stations plus a mobile fueler recently funded. You can track our progress at www.cafcp.org by viewing the station map.
The Energy Commission began funding hydrogen stations in 2010, and to date CEC has allocated $90 million to fund 45 new stations, 3 station upgrades, and one mobile fueler. They have also provided operations and maintenance funding for 3 stations and anticipates providing the same for additional stations as they become operational. O&M funding is an essential tool in early market station deployment because it takes time for the FCEV market to grow to the point where stations can sell enough fuel to generate positive cash flow and cover expenses. By recognizing and enabling this, CEC has been a world leader in enabling the early H2 fuel market.
This slide also shows other hydrogen investments, including co-funding for the second AC Transit hydrogen station, a major investment in the Division of Measurement Standards work to allow for retail hydrogen sales, and funding for the UC Irvine STREET hydrogen station mapping tool.
With two rounds of funding complete and a third underway, we can see distinct progress toward building the hydrogen station network, and a diverse group of developers participating. Based on the development timelines, we expect to have over 50 stations open in California within 2 years.
You can see the station network starting to form in the SF Bay area. While more stations are still needed in the Berkeley/Oakland cluster area, the Silicon Valley cluster is starting to see a good spread of station coverage. In addition there are also stations being developed in Sacramento, Lake Tahoe, and Napa – key locations where Northern CA residents want to travel. There is also a station being built in the middle of the state, so customers can travel between Northern and Southern CA.
For the Los Angeles region the early market infrastructure taking shape; with a nice network forming around Santa Monica, the South Bay and Orange County; the three primary SoCal clusters. Stations in Santa Barbara and San Diego will enable greater customer range and satisfaction with their FCEVs.
Building up the station network is no small task. We aim to permit and construct approximately 45 stations in the next 2 years. The State has put significant resources into making sure we can get it done. The Governor’s Office has published a ZEV Action Plan that details specific agency actions to support both plug-in and fuel cell electric vehicles. The Governor’s Office of Business and Economic Development, GO-Biz, hired Tyson Eckerle as the ZEV Infrastructure Project Manager. GO-Biz and Tyson’s role is to work with project developers and local communities to facilitate and accelerate the permit and construction process, initially focused on hydrogen infrastructure. The State has developed a general ZEV infrastructure permitting guidebook, and will be publishing a hydrogen-specific guidebook later this year. A high-level policy team including top executives from the Governor’s Office, ARB and CEC meet monthly to track progress. And Tyson convenes an inter- agency hydrogen team to proactively address issues and tackle challenges as they arise. We have also established a broader “green team” group that includes early market participants. We are also looking beyond California, as we know that enabling market launch in other states and regions around the world will be essential to sustained market success.
The California Division of Measurement Standards has field tested 7 stations in California in 2014 to determine the current range of accuracy for existing technology. They have also adopted three additional accuracy classes into regulation (in addition to the federally adopted 2% - adding 3%, 5% and 10% classes). The classes sunset over time, with the 10% class the first to sunset in 2018 and the 3 and 5% classes sunsetting in 2020. Based on test resutls, DMS may provide a station with a temporary use permit or a certificate of approval, either of which will allow legal commercial sale of hydrogen by the kg.
Stay tuned, as we expect H2 sales by the kg very soon.
The CaFCP plays an integral role in supporting the rollout. Along with members such as NREL, automakers, the CEC and GO-Biz we conduct training workshops for fire officials and permitting authorities. We have cultivated a strong interest in hydrogen among fuel retailers and marketers, the companies that are hosting and in some cases owning the hydrogen stations. We are updating our station online status system to make sure customers have up to date information about a hydrogen station before they show up to fuel. And we continue to conduct outreach and community events to spread the word about the benefits of hydrogen fuel cell electric vehicles and to give people a hands-on experience with cars and stations.
It’s not all about passenger vehicles, however. CA now has 16 fuel cell buses in operation (with 2 more on the way) that cumulatively have driven over 1.5M miles and carried well over 2.5M passengers. Fuel cell buses have proven they are capable replacements for conventional buses. Our bus roadmap published last year lays out the next steps in the commercialization process – two 40-bus centers of excellence with buses fully integrated into normal operations for a 12-year period. CaFCP members and advocates are working to ensure theCA state budget includes funding for these projects, and SunLine Transit has already indicated they aim to become a fuel cell bus center of excellence. Zero-emission heavy- and medium-duty vehicles, from trucks used in ports to package delivery trucks and vocational vehicles, are essential for meeting the state’s clean air goals and CaFCP is now developing a medium- and heavy-duty FCEV roadmap to chart the course for bringing these vehicles closer to commercialization. We expect that roadmap to be published later this year.
It’s an exciting time for FCEVs – there is a lot of work ahead, and many people dedicated to making this market a success. Thanks to everyone here at AMR for your hard work so that more people can know the pleasure of driving a FCEV and we can step closer to achieving our energy and environmental goals.