Hydrogen Fuel Cell Performance In the Key Early Markets of MHE and Backup Power

摘要

Since 2009, NREL has analyzed the operation of fuel cell material handling units in early market deployments. This includes 8 government funded material handling sites with 504 fuel cell units. The operational data collected from fuel cells and their infrastructure are used to characterize performance, maintenance, and operation and to highlight the business case for using fuel cells in early market applications. The data includes more than 1.5 million operation hours for fuel cell material handling equipment (MHE) and more than 246,000 hydrogen fills (data through December 2012). The latest analysis results are presented with a focus on key infrastructure metrics such as hydrogen infrastructure utilization, reliability, and availability.