Hydrogen: Government Incentives

The United States government is at the forefront of the push for hydrogen energy. There are two major initiatives in place; hydrogen fuel initiative and manufacturing initiative. The Hydrogen fuel and manufacturing initiative's goal is to ensure the manufacturing of hydrogen from all energy sources we use.

Coal is the largest producer of energy, hydrogen is a major bi-product. This coincides with the Department of Energy spending 1.2 billion dollars on a hydrogen infrastructure. The goal of the initiatives and government research is to have distribution of hydrogen cost effective by 2020. There are several different governmental departments working on hydrogen and fuel cell development.

The Department of Energy is working on hydrogen and fuel cell research and development. The Department of Commerce is working on measurements, standards and infrastructure technologies to facilitate high-volume manufacturing of hydrogen. Finally the National Science Foundation is working on fundamental research of hydrogen fuel cells and manufacturing.