Northeast Electrochemical Energy Storage Cluster (NEESC) recently released its 2015 Hydrogen & Fuel Cell Development Plans for eight states:
Connecticut
Maine
Massachusetts
New Hampshire
New Jersey
New York
Rhode Island
Vermont
The goal of advancing the deployment of hydrogen and fuel cell technology should result in many new projects.
We see even some numbers (total) in the plans like 1,300 MW of installed stationary fuel cell capacity, 10,800 fuel cell electric vehicles, 640 fuel cell powered buses and 110 hydrogen refueling stations.
Sounds ambitious, doesn’t it?
For example, NEESC recommends these goals for New York:
543 to 724 MW fuel cell electric generation by 2025
3,172 FCEVs (2,808 [188 FCEVs for NY State fleet] passenger and 364 transit/paratransit buses) as zero emission vehicles (ZEV)
27 to 32 hydrogen refueling stations (to support FCEV deployment)
The obvious question here is, assuming the infrastructure could be built out (big if) and the pricing/demand was strong (bigger if), is there even the production capacity in the system for the vehicles to fill these projections?