Energy and Environment

Employment Impacts of Hydrogen and Fuel Cell Technologies

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This report by Argonne National Laboratory that updated and expanded upon the 2008 Department of Energy Report to Congress, Effects of a Transition to a Hydrogen Economy on Employment in the United States , incorporated the REMI Policy Insight model in order to permit detailed analysis for five regions in Fiscal Year 2016. The model assisted with summarizing baseline trends in regional employment, compiling wages for relevant industries and occupations, and comparing existing forecasts of market growth and hydrogen and fuel cell penetration in select applications. Researchers found that Fiscal Year 2016 revolved around the search for the appropriate software to model hydrogen fuel cell technologies and the initiation of the largest hydrogen and fuel cell application considered in this analysis, particularly the estimation of industry cost vectors for the