Hydrogen Fueling Infrastructure Analysis

NREL's technology validation team is analyzing the availability and performance of existing hydrogen fueling stations, benchmarking the current status, and providing feedback related to capacity, utilization, station build time, maintenance, fueling, and geographic coverage.

As the market grows for hydrogen fuel cell electric vehicles, so does the need for a comprehensive hydrogen fueling infrastructure.

Participating partners from the U.S. hydrogen fueling station industry share raw data with NREL via the National Fuel Cell Technology Evaluation Center. NREL engineers perform uniform analyses on the detailed data and then report on their findings. While the raw data are secured by NREL to protect proprietary information, individualized data analysis results are provided as detailed data products to the partners who supplied the data. The analysis results are also aggregated into publicly available composite data products (CDPs) that show the status and progress of the technology, but don't identify individual companies.

Visit the Alternative Fuels Data Center to find hydrogen fueling station locations in the United States.

Publications

The following publications provide more information about NREL's hydrogen fueling infrastructure analysis activities and capabilities.

Next Generation Hydrogen Station Composite Data Products: Retail Stations; Summer 2022: Data Through Quarter 2 of 2022, NREL Composite Data Products (May 2023)

Next Generation Hydrogen Station Composite Data Products: Retail Stations; Summer 2021: Data Through Quarter 2 of 2021, NREL Composite Data Products (May 2022)

Next Generation Hydrogen Station Composite Data Products: Retail Stations, Data Through Quarter 4 of 2020, NREL Composite Data Products (December 2021)

Next Generation Hydrogen Station Composite Data Products: Retail Stations, Data Through Quarter 2 of 2020, NREL Composite Data Products (February 2021)

How Advanced Hydrogen Fueling Protocols Can Improve Fueling Performance and Hydrogen Station Design, Presented at Mission Hydrogen Webinar (July 2020)

Fueling Station Component Validation, Presentation to the DOE H2@Scale Working Group (May 2020)

Next Generation Hydrogen Station Composite Data Products: Retail Stations, Data Through Quarter 3 of 2019, NREL Composite Data Products (April 2020)

Technology Validation of Hydrogen Refueling Infrastructure, Presentation at the Fuel Cell Seminar in Long Beach, California (November 2019)

Hydrogen Station Data Collection and Analysis: 2019 Annual Merit Review, Presented at the DOE Hydrogen and Fuel Cells Program Annual Merit Review and Peer Evaluation Meeting (April 2019)

Next Generation Hydrogen Station Composite Data Products: Retail Stations, Data Through Quarter 4 of 2018, NREL Composite Data Products (April 2019)

Next Generation Hydrogen Station Composite Data Products: All Stations (Retail and Non-Retail Combined), Data Through Quarter 4 of 2017, NREL Composite Data Products (May 2018)

Next Generation Hydrogen Station Composite Data Products: Retail Stations, Data Through Quarter 4 of 2017, NREL Composite Data Products (May 2018)

Next Generation Hydrogen Station Composite Data Products: All Stations (Retail and Non-Retail Combined), Data Through Quarter 2 of 2017, NREL Composite Data Products (November 2017)

Next Generation Hydrogen Station Composite Data Products: Retail Stations, Data Through Quarter 2 of 2017, NREL Composite Data Products (November 2017)

Performance of Existing Hydrogen Stations, Presented at the 2017 Fuel Cell Seminar and Energy Exposition (November 2017)

Hydrogen Station Data Collection and Analysis: 2017 Annual Merit Review, Presented at the DOE Hydrogen and Fuel Cells Program Annual Merit Review and Peer Evaluation Meeting (June 2017)

Next Generation Hydrogen Station Composite Data Products: All Stations (Retail and Non-Retail Combined), Data Through Quarter 4 of 2016, NREL Composite Data Products (May 2017)

Next Generation Hydrogen Station Composite Data Products: Retail Stations, Data Through Quarter 4 of 2016, NREL Composite Data Products (May 2017)

Hydrogen Station Data Collection and Analysis: 2016 Annual Progress Report, Excerpt from the DOE Hydrogen and Fuel Cells Program Annual Progress Report (February 2017)

Next Generation Hydrogen Station Composite Data Products: All Stations (Retail and Non-Retail Combined), Data Through Quarter 3 of 2016, NREL Composite Data Products (January 2017)

Next Generation Hydrogen Station Composite Data Products: Retail Stations, Data Through Quarter 3 of 2016, NREL Composite Data Products (January 2017)

Hydrogen Station Data Collection and Analysis: 2016 Annual Merit Review, Presented at the DOE Hydrogen and Fuel Cells Program Annual Merit Review and Peer Evaluation Meeting (June 2016)

Transportation Big Data: Unbiased Analysis and Tools To Inform Sustainable Transportation Decisions, NREL Fact Sheet (June 2016)

Next Generation Hydrogen Station Composite Data Products: Data Through Quarter 4 of 2015, NREL Composite Data Products (May 2016)

Hydrogen Station Data Collection and Analysis: 2015 Annual Progress Report, Excerpt from the DOE Hydrogen and Fuel Cells Program Annual Progress Report (December 2015)

Performance Status of Hydrogen Stations and Fuel Cell Vehicles, Presented at the 2015 Fuel Cell Seminar and Energy Exposition (November 2015)

Next Generation Hydrogen Station Composite Data Products: Data Through Quarter 2 of 2015, NREL Composite Data Products (November 2015)

Hydrogen Station Data Collection and Analysis: 2015 Annual Merit Review, Presented at the DOE Hydrogen and Fuel Cells Program Annual Merit Review and Peer Evaluation Meeting (June 2015)

Next Generation Hydrogen Station Composite Data Products: Data Through Quarter 4 of 2014, NREL Composite Data Products (May 2015)

Next Generation Hydrogen Infrastructure Evaluation: 2014 Annual Progress Report, Excerpt from the DOE Hydrogen and Fuel Cells Program Annual Progress Report (November 2014)

Next Generation Hydrogen Station Composite Data Products: Data Through Quarter 2 of 2014, NREL Composite Data Products (November 2014)

Hydrogen Station Data Collection and Analysis: 2014 Annual Merit Review, Presented at the DOE Hydrogen and Fuel Cells Program Annual Merit Review and Peer Evaluation Meeting (June 2014)

Next Generation Hydrogen Station Composite Data Products: Data Through Quarter 4 of 2013, NREL Composite Data Products (May 2014)

Next Generation Hydrogen Infrastructure Evaluation: 2013 Annual Progress Report, Excerpt from the DOE Hydrogen and Fuel Cells Program Annual Progress Report (December 2013)

Next Generation Hydrogen Station Composite Data Products: Data Through Quarter 2 of 2013, NREL Composite Data Products (November 2013)

National Fuel Cell Technology Evaluation Center, NREL Fact Sheet (September 2013)

Next Generation Hydrogen Infrastructure Evaluation: 2013 Annual Merit Review, Presented at the DOE Hydrogen and Fuel Cells Program Annual Merit Review and Peer Evaluation Meeting (May 2013)

Next Generation Hydrogen Stations: All Composite Data Products Through Fall 2012, NREL Composite Data Products (October 2012)

Contacts

If you are interested in working with NREL's National Fuel Cell Technology Evaluation Center, please contact NREL's Technology Validation Team at techval@nrel.gov.

For more information about NREL's hydrogen fueling infrastructure analysis, contact Sam Sprik.