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The Hydrogen Fuel Cell Partnership (H2FCP) today announced a new Exchange Membership agreement with the Renewable Hydrogen Alliance (RHA), formalizing a partnership to advance hydrogen education, market development, and information sharing across the Pacific Northwest and nationally.

The Oregon Department of Transportation (ODOT) is exploring one public medium- and heavy-duty hydrogen refueling station on Interstate 5, and it's asking the hydrogen community to weigh in.

“This data confirms what we've been telling policymakers for years,” said Bill Elrick, Executive Director of H2FCP. “Hydrogen technology works, the capital is ready, and the projects are under construction. The question in front of us now is whether policy execution keeps pace with what's already been built.”

“Twenty-five years in, the technology question is settled,” said Bill Elrick, Executive Director of the Hydrogen Fuel Cell Partnership. “Fuel cell trucks and buses run routes every day, and the fueling network keeps growing. The work now is to build out infrastructure quickly enough to meet demand, which requires sustained policy support and long-term investment. What gets built in the next five years determines who leads for the next fifty.”

“This is what happens when the hydrogen industry stops working in silos,” said Bill Elrick, Executive Director of the Hydrogen Fuel Cell Partnership. “California proved the hydrogen fuel cell truck market works. Now we're seeing Oregon, Washington, British Columbia, and Baja California align around the same infrastructure and technical standards. That's a significant breakthrough.”

Every fuel transition in American history involved a period when vehicles, fuel, and infrastructure were out of step with one another. It's a sequencing problem with known solutions, and H2FCP has spent more than two decades documenting them. Hydrogen's biggest challenge isn't proving it works; it's scaling to meet demand and realize its potential.

The California Energy Commission (CEC) wants to fund small-scale hydrogen production sited right where the hydrogen gets used. GFO-25-308, Distributed Clean Hydrogen Production with Onsite End Use, will fund demonstration projects up to five metric tons per day that co-locate production, storage, and end use, aiming to cut production costs, lower retail prices, and decarbonize sectors that are hard to electrify.

Hydrogen trucking doesn't wait for permanent stations to catch up. A temporary fueling trailer commissioned this summer in Santa Fe Springs demonstrates how the industry is closing that gap while stations are being built.

“This paper is the kind of institutional memory our industry can't afford to lose,” said Bill Elrick, H2FCP's executive director. “Sunita spent two decades building the federal hydrogen program from the ground up, and now she's made sure at least part of the record survives the office that produced it.”