POSITION PAPER ON HYDROGEN ECONOMY
The second barrier is the lack of understanding, education and awareness of the fuel cell technologies among the public, the relevant ministries, and to some extent, the R&D communities. The third barrier to be overcome is the lack of clear and strong national policies that support new fuel cells applications and insufficient capacity, especially in innovation and technical know-how of hydrogen infrastructures such as hydrogen distribution, storage, and refuelling facilities, the high cost of deployment and inconvenient and impractical fuel cell applications.
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Strategy Recommendations - Hydrogen Economy Roadmap 2020
To create an optimal path to achieve hydrogen economy, building a complete ecosystem for hydrogen economy should be one of the focuses on 12th Malaysia Plan. Three key areas were identified in The Blueprint for the Fuel Cells Industry in Malaysia, namely Hydrogen Infrastructure, Fuel Cell Applications and Emerging Fuel Cell Technologies. Establishing hydrogen infrastructure is the most challenging step due to its high cost and uncertain market demand. It requires a high degree of government intervention to develop a local supply chain and specific market. Investment by the industry players plays a huge part in building hydrogen infrastructure. Fuel cell applications need to be diversified and widely accepted by the market to establish a robust supply chain. At the same time, the nation should continue to keep up the pace of emerging fuel cell technologies. One of the demonstration projects to consider is to develop a model city powered by fuel cell technology.
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