The Hydrogen and Clean Coal Fuels Program supports DOE’s strategic goals of increasing energy security, reducing environmental impact of energy use, promoting economic development, and encouraging scientific discovery and innovation by researching and developing novel technologies that convert the nation’s abundant coal resources into hydrogen and other clean fuels. The use of coal — America’s largest domestic fossil energy resource — offers the potential to economically produce hydrogen and capture carbon dioxide emissions for the generation of low-carbon electricity. In a co-production concept, coal can also be converted into power and other fuels such as gasoline, diesel and aviation fuel; chemicals; and substitute natural gas (SNG) which can help reduce reliance on imported oil and natural gas. Carbon capture and storage can be integrated with these processes and, because these processes typically utilize gasification, biomass can be co-utilized to further reduce the carbon footprint while allowing biomass to take advantage of the economies of scale associated with coal.