Accelerate hydrogen implementation and widespread utilization to optimize environmental protection, improve energy security and promote economic development internationally while establishing the HIA as a premier global resource for expertise in hydrogen.
Technology
Objective: To promote acceptance of hydrogen as an energy
Actions:
- Conduct R&D to address important barriers to hydrogen's acceptance
- Foster and maintain a balanced portfolio of hydrogen technologies
- Develop safe, efficient, and cost-effective hydrogen storage systems
- Demonstrate integrated hydrogen systems
- Collect, disseminate, and analyze information on hydrogen technologies
- Develop direct-hydrogen production technologies.
Energy Security
Objective: Contribute to global energy security
Actions:
- Fuel cell urban transit bus at hydrogen refueling station
Facilitate the transition from fossil fuel energy systems to sustainable hydrogen-based energy systems
- Provide resources for converting intermittent and seasonal renewables to base-load, load-following, or peak-load power supplies, and to transportation fuels
- Assist developing countries in evaluating sustainable, indigenous resources for hydrogen production.
Environmental
Objective: Exploit the environmental benefits of hydrogen
Actions:
- Carry out R&D on renewable hydrogen production techniques
- Promote hydrogen as a "clean" fuel
- Perform life-cycle assessments of hydrogen technologies and energy systems
- Conduct R&D on technologies that lead to the decarbonization of fossil fuels.
Economic
Objective: Develop cost-effective hydrogen energy systems that can compete in global markets
Actions:
- Encourage industry participation to obtain market-oriented input for prioritizing RD&D activities
- Develop and utilize analysis tools to evaluate and optimize hydrogen systems
- Increase involvement of industry in the Hydrogen Implementing Agreement's activities
- Foster clean-system incentive policies
- Identify secondary benefits of hydrogen energy systems, such as a reduction in the use of military force to ensure petroleum supplies.
Market
Objective: Identify and overcome barriers for hydrogen's penetration into the energy and fuel markets
Actions:
- Contribute to the scientific and technical basis for approved codes and standards
- Promote hydrogen infrastructure for supply, maintenance, and operation
- Pursue technologies that will lead to increased market penetration for hydrogen
- Initiate safety-related educational and technology assessment activities.
Deployment
Objective: Promote deployment of hydrogen technologies with important local and global energy benefits
Actions:
- Provide design support for hydrogen demonstrations
- Conduct cost-shared and task-shared deployment activities for hydrogen energy systems
- Act as an information resource for ongoing and proposed hydrogen demonstration activities, including performance analyses
- Conduct case studies for hydrogen systems in developing countries.
Outreach
Objective: Advertise the benefits of hydrogen
Actions:
- Increase involvement of private and public organizations in the IEA Hydrogen Program
- Use media tools to promote hydrogen education
- Establish collaborative R&D projects that promote international networks
- Collaborate with other IEA Implementing Agreements to increase the effectiveness of cross-cutting R&D activities
- Increase cooperation to reach "critical mass" in R&D activity.
