Sunday, 6 September 2026

Riverside Transit Agency has opened a liquid hydrogen refueling station and put its first five fuel cell electric buses into service, according to Hydrogen Fuel News, marking the start of a move away from natural gas toward a zero-emission fleet under California regulation.

The agency covers 14 cities across about 2,500 square miles in western Riverside County, California, Hydrogen Fuel News reported. It had switched its fleet to compressed natural gas in 2001, according to the same report.

Hydrogen Fuel News attributed the current fleet turnover to California's Innovative Clean Transit rule, which applies to public bus operators in the state.

The liquid hydrogen station gives the agency on-site refueling for the five buses now running, rather than reliance on off-site supply. The deployment is described as the first tranche of the transition, not the completed fleet.

Chile's H2V-TRANSDRIVE program has unveiled a locally engineered hybrid fuel cell truck rated for 600 km of range and a 2,000 kg payload, according to Hydrogen Fuel News.

The vehicle pairs an electric drivetrain with hydrogen fuel cells and runs on green hydrogen produced from wind and solar energy, Hydrogen Fuel News reported.

Pilot deployments in central and southern regions of Chile will validate the truck's performance and support the national hydrogen infrastructure roll-out, according to the same report.

The engineering work was done domestically, which places the program among the country's efforts to build heavy-duty hydrogen transport capability rather than import it. The declared 2,000 kg payload sets the load class the pilots will test, and the 600 km figure defines the refuelling interval that the planned infrastructure has to serve.

Gold Standard has published a Green Hydrogen Production methodology that allows carbon credits to be issued for hydrogen made through water electrolysis, according to Hydrogen Fuel News. The announcement came from the certifier's Geneva office.

The methodology sets rules covering four areas: additionality, traceability of the renewable electricity used, temporal matching of that electricity to production, and water safeguards. Hydrogen Fuel News described those rules as strict.

Under the framework, projects would earn Verified Emission Reductions registered under a Paris-aligned registry, per Hydrogen Fuel News. The outlet reported that the framework could reshape how green hydrogen projects secure financing.

Temporal matching and electricity traceability are the two conditions that separate an electrolyzer running on contracted renewable output from one drawing grid power with certificates attached after the fact. Both appear in the published rule set. Water safeguards address the other input to electrolysis, which splits water into hydrogen and oxygen.