President Bush has included $322 million in the fiscal year 2006 US Department of Energy's (DOE, Washington, DC) budget for fuel cell and hydrogen technology programs, which is an increase of $20.5 million over the $301.5 million Congress enacted for the current fiscal year.
Fuel cell and hydrogen-related proposals in the DOE budget include fuel cell technologies ($83.6 million, up $8.7 million from thefiscal year 2005 enacted budget), hydrogen program ($99.1 million, up $5.1 million from the fiscal year 2005 enacted budget), distributed generation fuel cells ($65.0 million, down $9.428 million from the fiscal year 2005 enacted budget), and additional funding in other DOE Offices ($74.28 million).
