Hydrogen and Fuel Cells Hub Extension (H2FC SUPERGEN)

H2FC行业在全球范围内发展迅速。在美国、德国、韩国和日本，政府提供了激励措施或建立了公私合作伙伴关系，对FC技术的采用远远超过了英国，并且预计将继续增长，每年产生数十亿美元的收入。在亚洲，制造商将在2016年生产约3,000辆燃料电池汽车和约50,000辆燃料电池热电联产设备。仅丰田一家公司就预计在2020年生产3万辆FC汽车。自2011年以来，伦敦的一些氢燃料巴士车队已经运行了近2万小时，阿伯丁市运营着欧洲最大的氢燃料巴士车队，而单个固定式燃料电池已经产生了超过8万小时的电力。最近发布的H2FC英国路线图确定了英国的关键机会以及H2FC技术可以受益的领域。H2FC SUPERGEN Hub旨在解决氢和燃料电池行业面临的一些关键问题，具体如下：(i)评估和展示氢和燃料电池研究在英国能源领域的作用，并将其与国际上更广泛的领域联系起来；（ii）识别、研究和利用氢和燃料电池在低碳能源系统中的影响；（iii）创建一个学者和实业家的群体，他们对彼此的工作进行评估，并能自信地建立网络，共同解决超出他们个人能力的研究问题。这些系统将包括使用H2FC技术来管理可再生能源渗透增加的间歇性，支持未来安全和负担得起的能源供应的发展。低碳运输（汽车、公共汽车、船只/渡轮）和使用氢和/或燃料电池的低碳加热/电力系统都有可能成为我们未来能源系统中的重要技术，这得益于它们固有的高效率和使用广泛的低碳至零碳燃料储备的能力。

The H2FC sector is developing at a rapid pace around the world. In USA, Germany, S.Korea, and Japan, where the government has provided incentives or entered public-private partnerships, the uptake of FC technologies has been far greater than in the UK and is expected to grow, generating billions of dollars every year. In Asia, manufacturers will produce around 3,000 fuel cell cars in 2016 and around 50,000 fuel cell combined heat and power devices. Toyota alone expects to build 30,000 FC cars in 2020. Some hydrogen buses in London's fleet have operated for nearly 20,000 hours since 2011 and the city of Aberdeen runs Europe's largest hydrogen bus fleet, while individual stationary fuel cells have generated power for over 80,000 operating hours. The recently issued H2FC UK roadmap has identified key opportunities for the UK and areas in which H2FC technologies can have benefits.The H2FC SUPERGEN Hub seeks to address a number of key issues facing the hydrogen and fuel cells sector, specifically: (i) to evaluate and demonstrate the role of hydrogen and fuel cell research in the UK energy landscape, and to link this to the wider landscape internationally, (ii) to identify, study and exploit the impact of hydrogen and fuel cells in low carbon energy systems, and (iii) to create a cohort of academics and industrialists who are appraised of each other's work and can confidently network together to solve research problems which are beyond their individual competencies. Such systems will include the use of H2FC technologies to manage intermittency with increased penetration of renewables, supporting the development of secure and affordable energy supplies for the future. Both low carbon transport (cars, buses, boats/ferries) and low carbon heating/power systems employing hydrogen and/or fuel cells have the potential to be important technologies in our future energy system, benefiting from their intrinsic high efficiency and their ability to use a wide range of low to zero carbon fuel stocks.