Hydrogen research and development is the core business of the IEA HIA. Ongoing for 30 years, this global collaboration has a robust portfolio of activities in hydrogen production and storage.  These activities are supported by analysis tasks and Executive Committee activities in integrated systems, safety and economic.  The portfolio is democratically determined by the 22 members based on our 2004-2009 Five Year Plan and the evolving needs of research and development in this field. The current portfolio consists of a half dozen production tasks.  The production component of the portfolio includes longer term approaches such as BioHydrogen and Water-photolysis, as well as nearer term sources such as reformer technology and high temperature production from nuclear and solar sources.   “Green” biomass and integrated wind hydrogen systems are also on our agenda. In the storage domain, the IEA HIA’s task is the largest such collaboration in the world.  A new infrastructure task in large scale hydrogen storage and distribution will compliment this effort, while also addressing large scale distribution issues and challenges.

As an ensemble, the IEA HIA collaboration is at the cutting edge of hydrogen R&D. This presentation provides an update on IEA HIA contributions to the state of the art in hydrogen R&D as the international community ramps up for commercialization.