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Caterpillar, Chevron Team on Hydrogen Power
Written by Marybeth Luczak, Executive Editor
Facilitated by Caterpillar subsidiary Progress Rail, Caterpillar and Chevron are demonstrating a hydrogen-powered locomotive prototype and associated hydrogen-fueling infrastructure at various U.S. locations.
Caterpillar Inc. and Chevron U.S.A. Inc. will collaborate “to confirm the feasibility and performance of hydrogen for use as a commercially viable alternative to traditional fuels” for line-haul rail, marine vessels and prime power, reported the companies, which said they will demonstrate a hydrogen-powered locomotive.
Caterpillar and Chevron on Sept. 8 announced they will be developing hydrogen demonstration projects in both transportation and stationary power applications.
Facilitated by Caterpillar subsidiary Progress Rail, Caterpillar and Chevron are demonstrating a hydrogen-powered locomotive prototype and associated hydrogen-fueling infrastructure. The companies said work on the rail demonstration “will begin immediately at various locations across the United States.”
“As we work to provide customers with the capability to use their desired fuel type in their operations, collaborating with Chevron is a great opportunity to demonstrate the viability of hydrogen as a fuel source,” Caterpillar Group President of Energy and Transportation Joe Creed said. “This agreement supports our commitment to investing in new products, technologies and services to help our customers achieve their climate-related objectives as they build a better, more sustainable world.”
“Through Chevron New Energies, Chevron is pursuing opportunities to create demand for hydrogen—and the technologies needed for its use—for the heavy-duty transportation and industrial sectors, in which carbon emissions are harder to abate,” Chevron New Energies President Jeff Gustavson said. “Our collaboration with Caterpillar is another important step toward advancing a commercially viable hydrogen economy.”
Progress Rail to develop hydrogen locomotive as part of Caterpillar-Chevron collaboration
By | September 9, 2021Companies say work on rail project, part of effort to prove hydrogen's feasibility for transportation and stationary power, will begin immediate
Progress Rail will be part of an agreement between Caterpillar and energy company Chevron to develop a hydrogen-powered locomotive demonstration project, along with hydrogen-powered demonstrations for other transportation and stationary power uses.
Caterpillar and Chevron said the project’s goal is to show the feasibility and performance of hydrogen as an alternative fuel for line-haul rail and marine applications. They said work on the locomotive project and associated hydrogen fuel facilities would begin immediately at various U.S. locations.
“As we work to provide customers with the capability to use their desired fuel type in their operations, collaborating with Chevron is a great opportunity to demonstrate the viability of hydrogen as a fuel source,” Joe Creed, Caterpillar group president of Energy & Transportation, said in a press release. “This agreement supports our commitment to investing in new products, technologies and services to help our customers achieve their climate-related objectives as they build a better, more sustainable world.” Jeff Gustavson, president of Chevron New Energies, said the collaboration with Caterpillar “is another important step toward advancing a commercially viable hydrogen economy.”
The Progress Rail projects will join several other programs seeking to develop hydrogen power for rail applications. Canadian Pacific is working on converting a diesel locomotive to hydrogen power, which it says should be operating next year [see “Canadian Pacific’s hydrogen locomotive should be operating in 2022, CEO says,” Trains News Wire, Jan. 20, 2021]. A California agency is funding development of a hydrogen fuel-cell locomotive by Sierra Northern Railway [see “California Energy Commission awards $4 million for development …,” News Wire, March 18, 2021]. And hydrogen-powered passenger trains are operating in a number of European countries, with one on order for use in Southern California [see “Development of hydrogen-powered trains continues, but battery-powered equipment making more inroads,” News Wire, Dec. 14, 2020].
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