The technical testing specifications are now available for the Energy Department's Fuel Cell Technologies Office's $1 million H2 Refuel H-Prize competition, a two-year competition administered by the Hydrogen Education Foundation that challenges America's engineers and entrepreneurs to develop systems for small-scale hydrogen fueling. Finalist entries to the competition will be evaluated on both technical and financial criteria to determine the winner of the $1 million prize. To evaluate the technical criteria such as dispensing pressure, the National Renewable Energy Laboratory will collect data from finalist systems using a data collection system. The testing specification documents are intended to inform potential contestants about the type of data that will need to be provided and how to ensure that it is compatible with the data collection system.
The Energy Department will present a webinar on May 14, 2015, at 1 p.m. Eastern Daylight Time to go over the specifications and testing plans and answer questions. Anyone interested in the competition is encouraged to attend, and the webinar will be recorded and posted at the H-Prize website.