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| Center for Fuel Cell Research and Applications |
The Center's research activities, data, and equipment evaluations provide critical information for a wide range of organizations involved in the fuel cell supply chain and in technology development. In particular, the Core Program serves organizations interested in early stage technology development including:
- Venture capital investors and investment advisors
- Corporate venturing organizations
- Corporate R&D managers
- Hydrogen and fuel cell technology developers
- Materials companies and component suppliers
- Systems integrators
- Universities and research centers
- National Labs
The Supplements Projects serves organizations interested in understanding commercial product performance including:
- IT and telecom providers
- Component suppliers
- Electric and Gas Utilities
- System Integrators
- Fuel and hydrogen suppliers
- Energy system planners and managers
- Facilities managers and engineers
- CHP developers
- Safety organizations
- Homeland security organizations
- Fuel cell distributors
- Fuel cell maintenance contractors
- Late stage investors
- Finance and insurance providers
- Research institutions
- Technical colleges and trade schools
- Non-profits or NGOs
- Governmental agencies (regulatory or adopting)
To maintain neutrality and scientific objectivity, fuel cell system and hydrogen production equipment manufacturers may not sponsor the test and evaluation under the Supplemental Projects. However, the test and evaluation activities benefits manufacturers in the following four ways:
- HARC will purchase the fuel cell system and/or hydrogen production equipment
- HARC will allow the manufacturer to review evaluations and reports pertaining to their system prior to publication
- HARC will provide all evaluations and reports to the supplier free of charge
- HARC will invite the manufacturer to participate in Sponsor meetings where data on their products is presented.
Note that items 2 and 3 require the manufacturer to sign a non-disclosure agreement prior to receiving confidential reports.
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| Page Updated/Reviewed: 05/25/2006 9:54 AM |
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