The 2013 Strategic Plan For the Inaugural Rollout of Hydrogen Fueling Stations In California
Publication Number
CEC-600-2015-005
Updated
February 09, 2015
Publication Year
2015
Publication Division
Transportation Energy (600)
Program
Clean Transportation Program
Contract Number
600-10-002
Author(s)
Tim Brown, Shane Stephens-Romero, James Soukup, Kersey Manliclic, Scott Samuelsen
Abstract
A comprehensive network of hydrogen fueling stations is required to enable an early market of commercial fuel cell electric vehicles in California. The hydrogen station network will need to minimize upfront equipment capital and target investments to ensure that investments are effectively and efficiently used. These efforts require advanced planning and coordination with stakeholders.
The “Spatially and Temporally Resolved Energy and Environment Tool (STREET),” developed by the Advanced Power and Energy Program at the University of California, Irvine, serves this advanced planning and coordination role through the capability to optimize the number and location of alternative fueling stations based on the intersection of multiple land-use, demographic, traffic pattern, and infrastructure data. STREET has been used in collaboration with stakeholders to support the California Fuel Cell Partnership’s Strategic Plan for the Rollout of Hydrogen Fueling Stations in California, the goal of which is to enable the introduction of commercial volumes of fuel cell electric vehicles in the State.
The STREET method and results are described in this report. The results establish (1) that 68 strategically located hydrogen fueling stations (50 new hydrogen fueling stations in addition to the 18 existing or planned stations) are needed in the California by 2015 to enable the introduction of commercial volumes of fuel cell electric vehicles, and (2) the geographic distribution of stations that is required to fuel these vehicles.