Early Stage Market Change and Effects of the Recovery Act Fuel Cell Program -- 2015 Update

On April 15, 2009, the U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) announced $41.9 million in funding for 12 fuel cell (FC) projects under the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act (ARRA). This effort, denoted in this document as the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act Fuel Cell Program (ARRA‐FCP), was intended to accelerate FC system commercialization and deployment in materials handling equipment (MHE) and backup power (BUP) applications and to build a robust fuel cell manufacturing industry in the United States, with accompanying jobs in fuel cell manufacturing, installation, maintenance, and support service. This report presents the results of an early‐stage market impact evaluation of the ARRA‐FCP.