Hydrogen Station - Hydrogen Filling Stations

Hydrogen Filling Stations

In 2000, Ford and Air Products opened the first hydrogen station in North America in Dearborn, MI.

Since the turn of the millennium, filling stations offering hydrogen have been opening worldwide. However, this does not begin to replace the existing extensive gasoline fuel station infrastructure, which would cost a half trillion U.S. dollars in the United States alone.

The hydrogen fueling stations include the following:

• In Germany as of March 2010 there is one hydrogen fuel station operating in Berlin, another under construction, and the Clean Energy Partnership plans additional stations. The current 14 stations nationwide will be expanded to 50 by 2015 through its public private partnership Now GMBH
• Hawaii opens the first hydrogen station at Hickam in 2006. Up to 25 hydrogen stations around Oahu by 2015 are planned.
• Iceland opened the first commercial hydrogen station in 2003 as part of the country's initiative to implement a hydrogen economy.
• Stations in California opened by the California Fuel Cell Partnership, and under Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger's California Hydrogen Highway program.
• Japan has a number of hydrogen filling stations run by the Japan hydrogen fuel cell project to test various technologies of hydrogen generation. and is adding another 100 hydrogen stations with the last ones operational in 2015
• British Columbia, Canada, is building a seven node hydrogen refueling station network from Victoria to Whistler timed to coincide with the 2010 Winter Olympic Games. The node in Surrey was the first in the world to deliver hydrogen at 70 MPa, and is the longest operational node in the network, having been supplying hydrogen since March 2002.
• Proton Energy Systems and Northern Power, both wholly owned subsidiaries of Distributed Energy Systems (Nasdaq: DESC), were contracted by EVermont to build an advanced demonstration hydrogen fueling station in Burlington, VT. The project was partially funded through the U.S. Department of Energy’s Hydrogen Program.
• A hydrogen filling station opened in 2007 on the campus of The Ohio State University at the Center for Automotive Research. This station is the only one in Ohio.
• Missouri's only Hydrogen Filling Station is located at the Missouri University of Science and Technology campus.
• A prototype hydrogen fueling station was built in compliance with all of the prevailing safety, environmental and building codes in Phoenix to demonstrate that such fueling stations could be built in urban areas.
• Hynor, Norway's first hydrogen fueling station was opened in February 2007.
• The UK has opened its first hydrogen filling station at the University of Birmingham.
• June 2008 - The HyApproval project, FP6 N° 019813 developed a universal handbook to facilitate the approval process of Hydrogen Refuelling Stations (HRS) in Europe.