SCRA is a global leader in applied research and commercialization services with more than 28 years of experience building multi-organizational teams and delivering innovative technologies. Our collaboration management model has proven effective across numerous power and energy technology programs and projects that bring together federal, state and local governments, academic research institutions, private industry and non-profit foundations and organizations. Significant hydrogen and fuel cell-related activities and projects include:

• Founding member of the University of South Carolina – City of Columbia Fuel Cell Collaborative, a nationally-recognized leader in promoting fuel cell commercialization through collaborative partnerships with the public, private, university, government and nonprofit sectors. This collaboration has received the “Innovator Award” from the Southern Policies Growth Board in 2009, and the “Excellence in Economic Development Award” from the International Economic Development Council in 2011.

• Identified the opportunity, coordinated federal and state funding sources, and provided overall project management for a DoE fuel cell “market transformation” initiative that deployed 10 fuel cell back-up power units at three mission-critical sites at Ft. Jackson, SC. This project earned distinction as a “Palmetto Pillar Award in Green Technology” recipient in 2009.

• Developed the vision, recruited the project team, and coordinated multi-agency funding for the first project nationally to be conducted under the joint DoE – National Park Service “Energy Smart Parks” initiative, which will demonstrate a combination of renewable energy technologies supplying both primary (solar) and backup (fuel cell) power at Ft. Sumter National Monument.

• Developed the vision, recruited the project team, and secured the public and private funding streams for an initiative that will validate the financial and technical feasibility of converting a stream of landfill gas to hydrogen for use in fueling a fleet of fuel cell – powered material handling equipment at BMW’s Greer, SC manufacturing facility.