Energy Policy Act of 2005
8/8/2005
The Energy Policy Act of 2005 (EPACT 2005) included measuring governing energy efficiency, renewable energy, oil and gas use, clean coal power, nuclear energy, and vehicles and fuels including the use of alternative fuels, hybrid vehicles, fuel cell buses, clean fuel school buses, automobile efficiency, and diesel emissions reduction.
Authors: Public Law 109-58, 109th Congress
Hydrogen Demand, Production, and Cost by Region to 2050
8/3/2005
This report presents an analysis of potential hydrogen demand, production, and cost by region to the year 2050. This analysis was conducted to (1) address the Energy Information Administration's request for regional hydrogen cost estimates that will be input to its energy modeling system; and (2) identify key regional issues associated with the use of hydrogen that needed further study. Hydrogen costs may vary substantially by region; however, to date, efforts to comprehensively and consistently estimate future hydrogen costs have not been assessed on a regional basis.
Authors: Singh, M.; Moore, J.; Shadis, W.
Overview of Advanced Technology Transportation, 2005 Update
8/1/2005
This overview of the 2005 transportation market includes hybrid, fuel cell, hydrogen, and alternative fuel vehicles. It covers vehicle sales, emissions, potential partners, advanced technology vehicle availability, and other factors. It also offers a "snapshot" of current vehicle technologies and trends.
Authors: Barnitt, R.; Eudy, L.
Yosemite Waters Vehicle Evaluation Report: Final Results
8/1/2005
This study was a joint effort between the South Coast Air Quality Management District (SCAQMD) and the National Renewable Energy Laboratory (NREL). The overall goal of the project was to evaluate the use of gas-to-liquid (GTL) fuel in combination with passive catalytic regenerative particle filters in real-world service and characterize regulated and unregulated exhaust pollutant emissions from GTL fuel in comparison to petroleum-derived diesel fuel.
Authors: Eudy, L.; Barnitt, R.; Alleman, T.
Alternative Fuels Commercialization in Support of the 2005 Integrated Energy Policy Report
5/1/2005
California's demand for transportation fuels has increased 53 percent in the last 20 years and in the next 20 years, gasoline and diesel demand will increase another 36 percent. California refineries rely increasingly on imported petroleum products to meet this demand. In 2003, the California Energy Commission and the California Air Resources Board adopted a two-pronged strategy to reduce petroleum demand: promoting improved vehicle efficiency, and increasing use of alternative fuels. This report discusses those alternative fuels used in transportation, including biodiesel, electricity, ethanol, gas to liquid fuels, hydrogen, liquefied petroleum gas (propane), and natural gas.
Authors: California Energy Commission Staff
Peaking of World Oil Production: Impacts, Mitigation, and Risk Management
2/1/2005
The peaking of world oil production presents the U.S. and the world with an unprecedented risk management problem. As peaking is approached, liquid fuel prices and price volatility will increase dramatically, and without timely mitigation, the economic, social, and political costs will be unprecedented. Viable mitigation options exist on both the supply and demand sides but to have substantial impact, they must be initiated more than a decade in advance of peaking.
Authors: Hirsch, R.L.; Bezdek, R.; Wendling, R.
Ending the Energy Stalemate: A Bipartisan Strategy to Meet America's Energy Challenges
12/1/2004
A bipartisan group of top energy experts from industry, government, labor, academia, and environmental and consumer groups produced this report to address major long-term U.S. energy challenges. The report contains detailed policy recommendations for addressing oil security, climate change, natural gas supply, the future of nuclear energy, and other long-term challenges, and is backed by more than 30 original research studies.
Module 2: Permitting Hydrogen Motor Fuel Dispensing Facilities
1/12/2004
This document is part of a series of reports about hydrogen codes and standards developed by the Pacific Northwest National Laboratory. The purpose of this module is to guide permitting officials, code enforcement officials, and other parties involved in approving the implementation of hydrogen motor fuel dispensing facilities.
Notes: Copies of this document are available from the PNNL Website at: http://www.pnl.gov/fuelcells/docs/permit-guides/module2_final.pdf.
Regulators Guide to Permitting Hydrogen Technologies
1/12/2004
Codes and standards are needed to ensure safety as well as to commercialize hydrogen as a fuel. To accomplish its codes and standards objectives, staff of the Hydrogen, Fuel Cells, and Infrastructure Technologies Program work with code development organizations, code officials, industry experts, and national laboratory scientists to draft new model codes and equipment standards that cover emerging hydrogen technologies for consideration by the various code-enforcing jurisdictions.
In support of the program objectives, this guide was developed through a collaborative effort involving National Fire Protection Association, the International Code Council, Pacific Northwest National Laboratory, and the National Renewable Energy Laboratory.
Notes: Copies of this document are available from the PNNL Website at: http://www.pnl.gov/fuelcells/docs/permit-guides/overview_final.pdf
Module 1: Permitting Stationary Fuel Cell Installations
1/12/2004
This document is part of a series of reports about hydrogen codes and standards developed by the Pacific Northwest National Laboratory. The purpose of this module is to facilitate the acceptance of stationary fuel cell technologies for buildings. To achieve this purpose, the module provides information on the building regulatory processes and provisions of relevant codes and standards that will have an impact on the design, deployment, approval, installation, operation, and maintenance of fuel cell technologies. The module covers fuel cell installations in buildings other than one- and two-family dwellings and for energy functions other than industrial processes. It is intended as a tool for determining the codes and standards applicable to stationary fuel cell installations that provide electricity for commercial buildings and that may also produce waste heat that can offset other energy-using features of such buildings.
Notes: Copies of this document are available from the PNNL Website at: http://www.pnl.gov/fuelcells/docs/permit-guides/module1_final.pdf.
The Hydrogen Economy: Opportunities, Costs, Barriers, and R&D Needs
1/1/2004
This 374-page report assesses the current state of technology for producing hydrogen from a variety of energy sources; estimates current and projected future costs, CO2 emissions and energy efficiencies for hydrogen technologies; considers scenarios for the potential penetration of hydrogen into the economy and associated impacts on oil imports and CO2 gas emissions; addresses hydrogen distribution, storage and dispensation; reviews the U.S. DOE's research, development and demonstration (RD&D) plan for hydrogen; and makes recommendations to the DOE and RD&D, including directions, priorities and strategies.
Notes: Copies of this document can be purchased from the National Academies Press Websites at: http://www.nap.edu/catalog.php?record_id=10922
SunLine Test Drives Hydrogen Bus
8/1/2003
This evaluation is one of several DOE projects that support the research and development of highly efficient, low- or zero-emission fuel cell power systems, which serve as an alternative to internal combustion engines. The demonstration is consistent with the Hydrogen, Fuel Cell & Infrastructure Technologies (HFC&IT) goal of having advanced technology vehicles enter the marketplace by 2010.
Fuel Cell Report to Congress: February 2003
2/1/2003
This report is one of two that Congress has asked the Department of Energy to prepare, describing the status of fuel cells. This report covers the potential benefits, the barriers to commercialization and the recommended program adjustments to fuel cell use in transportation, portable power, stationary, and distributed power generation applications.
Fuel Cell Vehicles: Race to a New Automotive Future
1/1/2003
This assessment discusses the status of global efforts to address the technical and economic barriers including cost and infrastructure to the widespread adoption of fuel cell vehicles and thereby usher in a new transportation future. While the successful resolution of remaining technical and economic barriers to fuel cell vehicles is not a foregone conclusion, success is closer than ever before.
Notes: Copies of this document can be downloaded from the U.S. Department of Commerce, Technology Administration Web site at: http://www.ta.doc.gov/reports/TechPolicy/CD117a-030129.pdf.