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DoE Requests $195.8 million for Hydrogen Technologies, up 20%, in New ‘07 Budget

WASHINGTON, DC, Feb. 7 - At $195.8 million, the Hydrogen Technologies budget request for fiscal year 2007 by the Bush administration is up roughly 20% over what was actually appropriated in FY ‘06, $155.6 million.

The total Energy Department ‘07 request for the president’s Hydrogen Fuel Initiative, including funds for fossil energy, nuclear energy, science and also for relevant programs within the Transportation Department, is $289.5 million, said Steven G. Chalk, DoE’s Hydrogen Program Manager, during an Internet-accessible briefing yesterday. Chalk’s presentation was one of many detail briefings here Monday when the huge Federal budget request of $2.77 trillion was announced.

Of the entire Hydrogen, Fuel Cells & Infrastructure Technologies program grouped in the Office of Energy Efficiency and Renewable Energy (EERE), Technology Validation is slated to receive the biggest chunk, $39.6 million, followed by Fuel Cell Stack Component R&D ($38.1 million), Hydrogen Production & Delivery ($36.8 million), and Hydrogen Storage R& D ($34.6 million).

The request makes no provision for Congressionally mandated activities which last year accounted for $42.5 million out of the $155.6 million total.

The entire EERE budget which includes activities such as Biomass and Biorefinery Systems R&D, Building Technologies, Vehicle Technologies and Weatherization & Intergovernmental Activities, totals $1.176 billion.

(A detailed article on the 2007 budget request will be in the forthcoming March issue of "The Hydrogen &Fuel Cell Letter").

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