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Today the Energy Department announces SimpleFuel as the winner of the $1 million H2 Refuel H-Prize Competition. Launched in October 2014, the H2 Refuel H-Prize Competition challenged America's innovators to deploy an on-site hydrogen generation system, using electricity or natural gas, to fuel hydrogen vehicles, that can be used in homes, community centers, small businesses, or similar locations.

At the beginning of 2017, Sunita Satyapal, Director of the Fuel Cell Technologies Office, reflects on the Program's 2016 accomplishments and highlights some of the plans for 2017.

The Fuel Cell Technologies Office will present a live webinar entitled "Manufacturing Cost Analyses of Fuel Cell Systems for Non-Transportation Applications" on Tuesday, January 24, from 12 to 1 p.m. Eastern Standard Time (EST). In this webinar, Vince Contini from Battelle will describe Battelle's five-year program to evaluate fuel cell system manufacturing costs at various production volumes, system capacities, and system designs for applications including material handling equipment, primary power and combined heat and power, backup power, and auxiliary power.

The U.S. Department of Energy's Fuel Cell Technologies Office has extended the deadline for the Request for Information entitled "Hydrogen and Fuel Cell Manufacturing: Identifying Specific Components for Manufacturing Standardization." Interested parties are requested to provide responses to this RFI electronically no later than 5 p.m. Eastern Standard Time on January 31, 2017.

Lighting makes up nearly 10% of the energy costs in our homes. But how many of us actually flip off the light switch when leaving the room? Over the past 16 years, Tien Nguyen, a veteran analyst in the Fuel Cell Technologies Office who just retired, did just that every night before he headed home from work—saving roughly $200,000 and enough electricity to power 150 homes for one year in the process.

When the R&D 100 Awards – also known as the “Oscars of Innovation” – were handed out, seven EERE-supported technologies invented by our national laboratories won awards in the fields of fuel cell technologies, vehicle technologies, and building technologies.

FREEZE! FCTO just nailed the Mannequin Challenge. Watch now to learn more about fuel cell vehicles and tour a cutting edge hydrogen demonstration station in Washington, DC.

A new video segment produced by Maryland Public Television's MotorWeek program gives viewers a first-hand look at what it’s like to drive a vehicle fueled by hydrogen and highlights the features and benefits of fuel cell electric vehicles (FCEVs).

The Fuel Cell Technologies Office will present a live webinar entitled "Total Cost of Ownership Modeling for Stationary Fuel Cell Systems" on Tuesday, December 13, from 12 to 1 p.m. Eastern Standard Time (EST). In this webinar, Max Wei of Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory will describe a total cost of ownership model for stationary fuel cell systems.

Check out this Facebook Live presentation of an electrolyzer and fuel cell demo by Fuel Cell Technologies Office (FCTO) fellows Sarah Studer and Zeric Hulvey and learn more about some of the different things that the FCTO is working on.