摘要: |
Through the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act (the Recovery Act or ARRA), the United States Department of Energy (DOE) funded several projects to deploy polymer electrolyte membrane (PEM) fuel cells in forklift and backup power applications. DOE invested $9.7 million to deploy fuel cells in forklifts and an additional $11.8 million was contributed through industry cost shares, for a total investment of $21.5 million in forklift projects. DOE invested $18.5 million to deploy fuel cells in backup power projects and an additional $30.8 million was contributed through industry cost shares, for a total investment of $49.3 million in backup power projects. In the interest of evaluating the success of those projects, DOE's Fuel Cell Technologies (FCT) Office commissioned Argonne National Laboratory (Argonne) and RCF Economic and Financial Consultants (RCF) to estimate the economic impact of those investments. This report summarizes the results of that effort. It presents estimates of total employment, earnings, and economic output attributable to expenditures for fuel cell projects funded under the Recovery Act. Estimates were developed using the JOBS and economic impacts of Fuel Cells (JOBS FC) model, developed by Argonne/RCF for DOE's FCT Office, supplemented as needed with calculations that capture expenditures unique to the ARRA program that are not modeled in JOBS FC. |