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What do Coca-Cola, Wal-Mart, Wegman's, Whole Foods, Verizon, Sprint, Pepperidge Farm all have in common? Fuel Cells! Check out the Technology Update for the latest news in the fuel cell industry.

What are all the automakers saying about fuel cell vehicles?

Keep spreading the word about how fuel cells and hydrogen need to be part of our energy portfolio! Check out our Grassroots page for resources and tools.

Want the inside scoop on the fuel cell industry? Check out our Fuel Cell Insider blog and post your comments, questions or thoughts.

State Fuel Cell and Hydrogen Database - a constantly updated searchable database of state programs, policy. incentives, initiatives, stationary fuel cell installations, vehicle demonstrations and hydrogen fueling stations. What happened in 2008? Check out our 2008 Policy Roundup.

The US Fuel Cell Council has released a comprehensive list of fuel cell products available for purchase from manufacturers headquartered in the United States, Canada and Europe.

Worldwide Stationary Fuel Cell Installation Database - a searchable, sortable catalogue of stationary fuel cell installations around the world.

What is a fuel cell?

A fuel cell is an electrochemical device that combines hydrogen and oxygen to produce electricity, with water and heat as its by-product.  As long as fuel is supplied, the fuel cell will continue to generate power.  Since the conversion of the fuel to energy takes place via an electrochemical process, not combustion, the process is clean, quiet and highly efficient – two to three times more efficient than fuel burning.

No other energy generation technology offers the combination of benefits that fuel cells do.  In addition to low or zero emissions, benefits include high efficiency and reliability, multi-fuel capability, siting flexibility, durability, scalability and ease of maintenance.  Fuel cells operate silently, so they reduce noise pollution as well as air pollution and the waste heat from a fuel cell can be used to provide hot water or space heating for a home or office. 

See what great applications fuel cells can be used for!

We're getting the word out about fuel cells! Visit our Articles page to read about hot fuel cell topics, published in a variety of magazines and journals.

ANSWERS to some of the questions you've been hearing and reading about hydrogen and fuel cells.

Check out some of our recent conference presentations for loads of charts, images and technical information on hydrogen and fuel cell industry advancements and policy.

How much is each country spending on fuel cells? We've compiled websites, reports and presentations and created the new draft report, International Hydrogen and Fuel Cell Policy and Funding.

What's New in the Industry -

• Forklifts, Aisle 5. Whole Foods Market has purchased 61 Plug Power GenDrive™ fuel cell-powered forklifts for use next year in its Landover, Maryland, distribution center. The funding for the fuel cells is part of a $6.1 million award made to GENCO Supply Chain Solutions in April of 2009 by the US Department of Energy (DOE) through the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act. Alliance Material Handling, a Maryland-based Crown lift truck supplier, will supply the 45 class-3 pallet jack and 16 class-2 standup reach trucks.

• FuelCell Energy Installing Unit in Sonoma County. FuelCell Energy has sold a 1.4 megawatt fuel cell to California's Sonoma County to supply 100 percent of the baseload electricity for a county jail and county office buildings in Santa Rosa. The fuel cell, to be installed by AirCon Energy of Sacramento, will cost about $9 million. The County of Sonoma expects significant energy cost savings during the first year of operation since the byproduct heat will be recovered and used to replace approximately half the natural gas the County currently purchases to make hot water for space heating, cleaning, and cooking.
  
  

Want to know how a fuel cell works? Check out the animated demos.

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Other Resources -

Career and Education Center - Check out the Fuel Cell Match Maker to post your resume and browse for fuel cell work! Also browse our Employment, Educational and Professional resources with links to job sites, colleges and universities, science projects, lesson plans and much, much more.

Download our Fuel Cell Reference Charts, including the Fuel Cell Equity and Investment chart. Also available - Fuel Cell Vehicles, Fuel Cell Buses, Fuel Cell Specialty Vehicles and Worldwide Hydrogen Fueling Stations.

Overwhelmed by all of the information on our site? Visit our Site Guide for a listing of topics.