NRC fuel cell technology center

'Full text:' The National Research Council Institute for Fuel Cell Innovation has a mandate to support the commercialization of fuel cell technologies by providing facilities and testing services. NRC's vision is to create a Technology center for integrating, testing and demonstrating fuel cell and hydrogen technologies. To this effect NRC is building its capacity for testing and implementing programs to develop testing protocols. This effort is supported by research that is going on at NRC at the cell and stack level to understand failure modes of fuel cells. This paper will present the vision for the technology center and report on the capability of the center and its activities. (author)