A Strategic Scenario of Infrastructure Construction for FCV

Abstract

Reducing carbon dioxide emission and enhancing energy security are the most critical energy issues for construction of future energy systems. The hydrogen energy system is widely accepted as one of the most promising system options for solving such problems. Ministry of Economy, Trade and Industry (METI) of Japanese Government made public its revised introduction scenario of fuel cell vehicles (FCVs) and stationary fuel cells with a time frame of 2005 to 2030 in March, 2004. In this paper, we describe a scenario of the infrastructure construction for achieving the Government’s targets of FCV. And prospected future hydrogen costs being included, we have estimated the additional investments in the infrastructure.