Brief to the Senate Hydrogen and Fuel Cell Caucus, January 2005
ITS - Davis professors Dan Sperling, Joan Ogden, Ken Kurani, and Hydrogen Pathways associate director Anthony Eggert, together with Catherine Dunwoody, Executive Director of the California Fuel Cell Partnership (CaFCP), met to brief the Senate Hydrogen and Fuel Cell Caucus on January 11, 2005 in Washington D.C.
The Hydrogen and Fuel Cell Caucus, co-chaired by Byron Dorgan (D - ND) and Lindsey Graham (R - SC), is a bipartisan group whose mission is to bring attention to hydrogen's role in long-term national energy and environmental security. The CaFCP's Catherine Dunwoody discussed recent hydrogen and fuel cell activities in California. Joan Ogden, Daniel Sperling and Kenneth Kurani highlighted their latest research and discussed clean, low-cost strategies for hydrogen production and delivery, and policy options for fuel cell vehicles.
Agenda and Presentations at the briefing
1) Final Agenda Briefing Fuel Cell Caucus
2) Catherine Dunwoody (California Fuel Cell Partnership), Fuel Cell Vehicles and Hydrogen on the Road in California
3) Kenneth S. Kurani (UC Davis), Consumer Incentives for H2: Lessons from AFVs, EVs, and hybrids
4) Joan Ogden (UC Davis), Hydrogen Supply: Pathways and Strategies
5) Daniel Sperling (UC Davis), Toward a Pragmatic Hydrogen Strategy
Supporting Papers:
Ogden, Joan, Daniel Sperling, "The Hope for Hydrogen," Issues in Science and Technology, Spring 2004.
Lipman, Timothy E., Daniel M. Kammen, Joan M. Ogden, Daniel Sperling, Anthony R. Eggert, Peter A. Lehman, Susan A. Shaheen, David Shearer (2004) An Integrated Hydrogen Vision for California. Institute of Transportation Studies, University of California, Davis, Research Report UCD-ITS-RR-04-43
Eggert, Anthony, "Hearing on the Use of Hydrogen Fuel Cell Technology in the National Park Service," Testimony Before the Subcommittee on National Parks, Recreation and Public Lands, United States House of Representatives," May 15, 2004, ITS-Davis, Publication No. UCD-ITS-RR-04-12.
Ogden, Joan, Robert Williams, Eric Larson, "A Societal Lifecycle Cost Comparison of Cars with Alternative Fuels/Engines," Journal of Energy Policy Volume 32, Issue 1, January 2004, Pages 7-27.