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Top 25 Fuel cell research institutions worldwide
RevenueBase identified 449 fuel cell research institutions worldwide as of September 2026 and tracks 7,879 professional contacts across them, including 1,800 with verified work emails. Germany is the largest market and Duisburg the largest hub.
This list covers fuel cell research institutions worldwide, matched on what each company actually does as described in its own words. Ranked by team size, largest first. Every row shows the company's own description, its RevenueBase Smart Search rating, and when it was last checked. Data refreshed September 20, 2026. Country and city lists for fuel cell research institutions follow the table.
Published by RevenueBase, a B2B data infrastructure company. This list was built with RevenueBase Smart Search, the natural-language company search RevenueBase customers use to build their own targeted lists and unlock verified emails and direct dials at the companies on them. How these lists are built and judged.
The 25 largest fuel cell research institutions worldwide
Ranked by team size| # | Company | Contacts | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 239 contacts → | ||||
Partial evidence “CIDETEC is a private organization for applied research founded in 1997 that seeks to contribute value to companies by harnessing, generating and transferring technological…” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 20, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 2 | 207 contacts → | ||||
Strong evidence “Powering the hydrogen future® with our outstanding fuel cells and service.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 20, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 3 | 191 contacts → | ||||
Strong evidence “Greenlight Innovation is the leading global supplier of testing and manufacturing solutions for hydrogen fuel cells, electrolysers, and lithium batterie packs.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 20, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 4 | 168 contacts → | ||||
Partial evidence “The Zentrum für Sonnenenergie-und Wasserstoff-Forschung Baden-Württemberg (Centre for Solar Energy and Hydrogen Research Baden-Württemberg, ZSW) is one of the leading institutes…” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 20, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 5 | 158 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “IMDEA Energy Institute was created in 2006 by the Regional Government of Comunidad de Madrid as non-profit Foundation to promote and carry out R&D&i activities to contribute to…” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 20, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 6 | 153 contacts → | ||||
Strong evidence “The Fraunhofer Research Institution for Battery Cell Production FFB is the central research and manufacturing infrastructure to enable industry to produce battery cells…” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 20, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 7 | 149 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “Symbio is a leading technology and industrial partner for sustainable mobility pioneers.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 20, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 8 | 147 contacts → | ||||
Strong evidence “PowerCell develops and produces hydrogen electric fuel cell stacks and systems with a uniquely high power density, targeting applications in the aviation, marine, power…” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 20, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 9 | 143 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “The Department of Energy Conversion and Storage (DTU Energy) is a department under the Technical University of Denmark (DTU).” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 20, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 10 | 142 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “DIFFER, science for future energy!” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 20, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 11 | 100 contacts → | ||||
Strong evidence “ZBT is working on technical solutions for our future energy system, specifically in the fields of fuel cells, hydrogen technologies and electrolysis.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 20, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 12 | 92 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “The future can only be influenced if we lay the foundation for it today.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 20, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 13 | 89 contacts → | ||||
Strong evidence “FC TecNrgy Pvt Ltd (FCT) is an India-based, leading private-sector Fuel Cells and Sustainable Energy & IT Solutions Enterprise.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 20, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 14 | 88 contacts → | ||||
Strong evidence “Hyzon (NASDAQ:HYZN) is a global supplier of high-performance hydrogen fuel cell technology focused on providing zero-emission power to decarbonize demanding industries.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 20, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 15 | 78 contacts → | ||||
Partial evidence “At the Chair of Thermodynamics of Mobile Energy Conversion Systems (TME) and the Center for Mobile Propulsion (CMP) of RWTH Aachen University, research on all topics concerning…” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 20, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 16 | 72 contacts → | ||||
Strong evidence “The HyCentA Research GmbH at Graz University of Technology is the only extra-university research institution in Austria exclusively focusing on hydrogen technologies.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 20, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 17 | 71 contacts → | ||||
Strong evidence “Elcogen develops and supplies a proprietary solid oxide technology platform that operates in both fuel cell (SOFC) and electrolysis (SOEC) modes, enabling affordable green…” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 20, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 18 | 61 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “A partir de demandas da indústria, a nossa missão é inovar promovendo as melhores soluções e aplicações de acumuladores de energia.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 20, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 19 | 61 contacts → | ||||
Strong evidence “IRD Fuel Cells is a private company which provides quality and innovation for its customers based on the highest levels of integrity, environment and strong values.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 20, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 20 | 58 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 20, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 21 | 54 contacts → | ||||
Partial evidence “LRCS is a cutting-edge public research lab in the field of energy storage and conversion.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 20, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 22 | 52 contacts → | ||||
Partial evidence “Münster Electrochemical Energy Technology (MEET) of the University of Münster is one of the foremost battery research centres in Germany and one of the leading drivers of…” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 20, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 23 | 48 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 20, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 24 | 47 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 20, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 25 | 45 contacts → | ||||
Strong evidence “Blue World Technologies is an ambitious and visionary developer and manufacturer of HT-PEM fuel cell components and systems for stationary applications, on- and off-road…” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 20, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
RevenueBase Smart Search
RevenueBase Smart Search assesses information from a company’s LinkedIn profile, information supplied directly by the company, its website, and other publicly available sources. It uses that information to rate how closely the company relates to this list’s category: fuel cell research institutions. Every row carries its rating and the description the rating was read from, so each one can be checked rather than taken on trust.
- Strong evidence
- The company's own public description of its business names fuel cell research institutions.
- Partial evidence
- Its own public description names part of fuel cell research institutions, so it works in or next to the category without describing itself that way.
- Indirect evidence
- The description shown does not name fuel cell research institutions. The match rests on the rest of the company's public profile rather than the one sentence quoted here, so this is the rating to check first.
RevenueBase Smart Search is how these lists are built: RevenueBase's data engine and AI assemble the companies that match a category defined in a user's own words, so a list can be about what companies actually do rather than about whichever industry code they were filed under.
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Fuel cell research institutions worldwide at a glance
As of Sep 20, 2026Companies by employee count
Email recency is reported on each country list linked below.
How this list was built
Company categories are rarely black and white. RevenueBase reads each company's own description of its business to decide whether it belongs among fuel cell research institutions, so some rows will be adjacent to the category rather than pure plays. The description and RevenueBase Smart Search rating on every row are there so you can check each match yourself.
- Source
- The RevenueBase company graph: 60 million companies and 398.9 million professional contacts resolved from primary sources, queried with RevenueBase Smart Search, the natural-language company search available to every RevenueBase user.
- Coverage
- Every country. Country and city lists for fuel cell research institutions are linked below.
- What qualifies
- Companies worldwide whose own description of what they do matches “fuel cell research institutions”. Matching reads each company's description, not its industry code or its name.
- RevenueBase Smart Search
- RevenueBase Smart Search is how this list is assembled and how each row is rated. RevenueBase's data engine and AI assess a company's LinkedIn profile, information supplied directly by the company, its website and other publicly available information, then relate it to a category defined in a user's own words. Each row is rated strong evidence (its own description names fuel cell research institutions), partial evidence (it names part of the category) or indirect evidence (the description shown names none of it and the match rests on the rest of the company's profile). The description supporting each rating is quoted on the row.
- What we exclude
- Companies whose own description does not clearly place them among fuel cell research institutions, and records with no verified work email.
- Match quality
- In blind human judging of this matching method, 86% of matched companies were on target. Expect roughly 1 in 7 rows to be adjacent to the category rather than a pure play. Every row shows the company's own description and its RevenueBase Smart Search rating so you can judge each match yourself. Read the full methodology: how the lists are built, how the judging worked, and what the figure means.
- Ranking
- Team size, largest first: companies are ordered by the number of professionals RevenueBase tracks at each one. Employee ranges shown are reported bands, for context.
- Verification
- Every listed company carries at least one verified work email, 1,800 across the full list. Contacts re-verify on a rolling cadence, and each contact's own verification date is shown inside RevenueBase.
- Refresh
- This page's figures were pulled from the company graph on September 20, 2026. Lists refresh periodically as the graph is re-checked.
- Corrections
- Wrong category, wrong headquarters, or a company that has closed? Use “Report an issue” on any row. Reports go to the RevenueBase Data Team and feed back into the company graph.
Fuel cell research institutions by location
3 lists · largest firstEvery Fuel cell research institutions list RevenueBase publishes, by country and city. Counts are matching companies in each list as of its own refresh date.
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Frequently asked
What is RevenueBase Smart Search?
RevenueBase Smart Search is how RevenueBase decides which companies belong on this list and how strongly each one fits. Its data engine and AI assess a company's LinkedIn profile, information supplied directly by the company, its website and other publicly available information, then relate it to the category the list is about. Each row is rated strong evidence when the company's own description names fuel cell research institutions, partial evidence when it names part of the category, and indirect evidence when the description shown names none of it and the match rests on the rest of the company's profile.
How many fuel cell research institutions are there worldwide?
RevenueBase identified 449 fuel cell research institutions worldwide as of September 2026, matched on each company's own description of what it does rather than its industry code.
What is the largest company on this list?
Cidetec, headquartered in San Sebastian, tops this list with the largest team on record.
Which country has the most fuel cell research institutions?
Germany leads with 72 companies, followed by the United States (61) and India (26). Every fuel cell research institutions list by country and city is linked on this page.
Which city has the most fuel cell research institutions?
Duisburg leads with 7 headquartered companies, followed by Pune (6) and Aachen (5).
How do I get contact information for these companies?
A free RevenueBase account lets you run this exact search and work the top results, verified emails and direct dials included. Upgrading unlocks all 1,800 verified decision-maker contacts tracked across these 449 companies.
How current is this list?
The list refreshes periodically as the company graph is re-checked. This page's figures were pulled on September 20, 2026.
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RevenueBase is a B2B data infrastructure company. Its company graph covers 60 million companies and 398.9 million professional contacts, with emails verified on a rolling cadence rather than scraped once and left to decay. These company lists are generated directly from that graph with RevenueBase Smart Search, the same natural-language company search every RevenueBase user has: describe a market in plain words, get the companies that match, and add verified emails and direct dials for the people at them. It is the same data that powers RevenueBase's B2B data products, and a free account includes 500 credits to start. How these lists are built and judged.