Driving the next global energy breakthrough
Making A Change
The future of our planet depends on a clean energy economy. CCH at the University of Delaware is dedicated to accelerating industry’s adoption of hydrogen energy through research and development of innovative, affordable technologies along with entrepreneurship and workforce development to support this emerging sector.
Why CCH?
Clean hydrogen is necessary for decarbonizing the global energy economy, but current clean hydrogen production methods are too expensive to allow for its widespread adoption. CCH is supporting innovation by making component testing at scale affordable and accessible.
Our Vision
A decarbonized energy future through affordable clean hydrogen at scale.
Our Mission
To create, build, and nurture clean hydrogen technologies through education, research, workforce development, entrepreneurship, and component testing at scale for companies of all sizes.
What We Do
We accelerate the innovation, development and testing of clean hydrogen technologies by fostering collaboration between academia, industry, and government.
We perform research and development to help reduce the cost of hydrogen by finding better materials, simpler stack design, and faster manufacturing methods.
We cultivate, connect, and promote electrochemical experts and energy industry professionals and workers to power the hydrogen economy of the future.
We incubate and accelerate clean energy startups and work with the private sector to speed time to market.
We test hydrogen components and systems at scale.
Why Hydrogen?
When produced at scale, clean hydrogen has wide ranging industry uses, including the production of ammonia (fertilizers), steel, and cement. Hydrogen can also power many forms of transportation and provide long-duration grid energy storage.
Currently, most hydrogen is produced from natural gas, but in the future, most hydrogen will be produced with clean electrons from wind and solar power. Together with clean electricity, green hydrogen has the potential to reduce the world’s carbon emissions by 80%. But this requires innovation—and it must start now.
