Toyota Motor North America is working on the installation of a hydrogen-based fuel cell power generator at the National Renewable Energy Laboratory’s campus in Arvada, Colo.
The NREL, a division of the U.S. Department of Energy, will study the performance limitations and degradation of the one-megawatt fuel cell system, as well as the way it performs when integrated with energy storage systems and renewables like solar and wind. The generator will be part of a larger system intended to study hydrogen power.
The $6.5 million partnership between Toyota and the NREL to install the generator, which Toyota announced Wednesday, is partially funded by the DOE’s Hydrogen and Fuel Cell Technologies Office.
