The Hydrogen Production: Overview of Technology Options brochure provides congressional staff, non-technical decision makers, and interested members of the public with a basic understanding of the potential contributions, technologies, and issues involved in developing hydrogen as an energy carrier.
Client Need
The U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) Hydrogen, Fuel Cells and Infrastructure Technologies Program (HFCIT) asked Energetics to help compile, synthesize, and edit a Hydrogen Production Technology Roadmap. Draft sections for the roadmap had been developed by members of the FreedomCAR and Fuel Partnership, but the sections were not easily integrated into a single document. The DOE goal was to produce a report that was clear and cohesive for use as both a technology roadmap for the research and development (R&D) community and a general outreach piece.
Solution
Upon review of the 158-page draft document, Energetics determined that the document possessed extensive technical detail that would be lost in the process of editing it for a non-technical audience. To best serve HFCIT’s needs, Energetics developed two products: a more detailed technical roadmap and a companion piece – a 16-page overview brochure designed for a non-technical reader.
Results
For audiences unfamiliar with hydrogen production, the finished brochure frames the topic by explaining hydrogen’s potential to help diversify transportation energy resources and attain U.S. climate goals. The brochure also places the various hydrogen production options on a broad timeline for development and acquaints the reader with the implications of production scale and location. This introduction lays the groundwork for readers to understand the subsequent summary of the key challenges and benefits associated with each of the seven hydrogen production pathways. In addition, the brochure serves as an easy-to-distribute “Executive Summary” that leads members of the research community to the more technical roadmap produced under the FreedomCAR and Fuel Partnership.