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Caterpillar Inc. announced a three-year project through a collaboration with Microsoft and Ballard Power Systems to demonstrate a power system incorporating large-format hydrogen fuel cells to produce reliable and sustainable backup power for Microsoft data centers. The project is supported and partially funded by the U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) under the H2@Scale initiative and backed by the National Renewable Energy Lab (NREL).

A member of the Toyota group will begin a four-year trial at one of the largest US ports using cargo equipment powered by manure-derived hydrogen fuel.

• 105 hydrogen fuel cell-powered cars were sold in California in November

Each month the California Fuel Cell Partnership publishes the latest statistics on how many fuel cell cars have been sold and leased, how many fuel cell buses are on the road, and how many hydrogen stations are open in California.

Agreement includes an initial purchase or long-term lease of 10 battery-electric trucks

DOE Will Oversee $20 Billion Federal Investment to Stand Up Clean Energy Projects Across the U.S. to Reach President Biden’s Net-Zero Goals

HOUSTON— KBR (NYSE: KBR) announced today that it has been awarded a study to help establish a green hydrogen market in Trinidad and Tobago as part of an ongoing technical cooperation financed by the Inter-American Development Bank (IDB).

Champaign-Urbana MTD leveraged private and public partnerships to be the first transit agency in the United States with a hydrogen fleet fueled entirely from its own 100 percent renewable source.

NEW YORK — Sumitomo Corporation of Americas (SCOA), the largest subsidiary of Sumitomo Corporation, one of the world’s largest traders and investors of goods and services, announced today its participation in the Japanese Hydrogen Forum (JH2F).

The U.S. Department of Energy’s (DOE) Office of Fossil Energy and Carbon Management recently granted up to $644,000 for the University of Wyoming School of Energy Resources (SER) to assess the economic impacts of fossil energy production in Wyoming and evaluate opportunities and research needs to deploy clean hydrogen technologies.