California Hydrogen Highway

The California Hydrogen Highway is a series of hydrogen refueling stations in California. These stations are used to refuel hydrogen vehicles. As of August 2020, there were 42 publicly accessible hydrogen refueling stations in California.[1]

History

The California Hydrogen Highway Network (CaH2Net) was initiated in April 2004 by Executive Order (EO) S-07-04 under Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger with the purpose of promoting hydrogen refueling stations in California.[2]

In September 2006, California Senate Bill 1505 required 33% of hydrogen to come from renewable energy sources,[3][4] and other initiatives followed.[5] As of 2007, 25 stations were in operation.[6] Some of these hydrogen fueling stations completed the terms of their government-funded research demonstration project and were decommissioned.[7] In 2012, there were 23 hydrogen fueling stations in California,[8] eight of which were publicly accessible.[9][10]

In 2013 Governor Brown signed AB 8, a bill to fund $20 million a year for up to 100 stations.[11][12] As of September 2022, there were 53 publicly accessible hydrogen fueling stations in California (one station in Hawaii was the only other publicly accessible hydrogen station in the US).[13]

See also

References
  1. Alternative Fueling Station Counts by State, Alternative Fuels Data Center, accessed August 31, 2020
  2. "California Hydrogen Initiatives". CARB. July 15, 2016. Retrieved April 7, 2017.
  3. "SB 1505: Environmental Performance Standards for Hydrogen Fuel". Archived from the original on 10 June 2017. Retrieved 30 March 2017.
  4. http://www.leginfo.ca.gov/pub/05-06/bill/sen/sb_1501-1550/sb_1505_bill_20060930_chaptered.pdf
  5. "California Hydrogen Activities". CARB. Retrieved March 30, 2017.
  6. "California Fuel Cell Partnership".
  7. "Hydrogen Fueling Stations".
  8. Ingram, Antony. "RIP Hydrogen Highway? California Takes Back Grant Dollars", Green Car Reports, June 5, 2012
  9. "Stations", California Fuel Cell Partnership, 2012, accessed March 14, 2013
  10. Jones, Nicola. "Whatever happened to the hydrogen highway?", Pique, February 9, 2012, accessed March 17, 2016
  11. Bill AB 8, Signed by Gov. Jerry Brown (D) on September 30, 2013
  12. Xiong, Ben. "Governor Brown Signs AB 8" Archived 2013-12-02 at the Wayback Machine, California Fuel Cell Partnership, September 30, 2013
  13. Alternative Fueling Station Counts by State, Alternative Fuels Data Center, accessed September 30, 2022
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