Hydrogen serves as a critical industrial element, supporting petroleum refining, fertilizer and chemical production, and metal processing, while also offering a path to cleaner transport and power systems through fuel cells. Beyond its current uses, hydrogen holds promise as a large-scale energy storage medium, enabling excess renewable electricity to be converted, stored, and used when demand is high.
Standards play a key role in supporting the full hydrogen value chain—including production, storage, carbon capture, distribution and transport, utilization, and related infrastructure.
On June 22–23, ANSI will host a hybrid workshop at ASME office in Washington, DC that brings together stakeholders from across industry, government, academia, and the standards development community. This interactive event will focus on identifying pre-standardization research needs, evaluating existing and emerging standards and conformity assessment programs, and exploring considerations for regulatory and policy frameworks that can support safe and widespread hydrogen adoption.
Through a combination of expert presentations, panel discussions, and collaborative sessions, participants will have the opportunity to share insights, highlight gaps and challenges, and help shape priorities for future standards development and coordination efforts. The workshop is designed to foster dialogue, strengthen cross-sector collaboration, and advance a more aligned and effective approach to supporting the growing hydrogen ecosystem.
In March 2026, ANSI hosted two 4-hour webinars which included briefings from various standards and codes developers, highlighting their current activities and providing opportunities for dialogue with participants. The materials from both sessions are included below.
Presenters: Grace Bolan & Taylor Shie
Presenter: Len Morrissey
Presenters: Laura Brumsey & Rob Early
Presenters: Brent Hartman & Melanie Pinatton
Presenter: Mark Fasel
Presenter: Hyunbeen Noh
Presenter: Jennifer Hamilton
Presenter: Rich King
Presenter: Dante Rahdar
ANSI is developing a standards landscape to increase awareness about published and in-development standards, codes, guidance, and related conformity assessment materials. The landscape will include various metadata about the document status and associated technical pillars. The landscape will be developed through direct contributions from ANSI’s Request for Information and ongoing technical events.
Hydrogen standards overviews, presentations, event materials, and other helpful resources can be found below.
ANSI invites sponsorships to directly offset ANSI's costs of executing the project and extends its appreciation to the following organizations for their generous sponsorship towards this initiative.
ASME helps the global engineering community develop solutions to real-world challenges. Founded in 1880 as the American Society of Mechanical Engineers, ASME is a not-for-profit professional organization that enables collaboration, knowledge sharing, and skill development across all engineering disciplines, while promoting the vital role of the engineer in society. ASME codes and standards, publications, conferences, continuing education, and professional development programs provide a foundation for advancing technical knowledge and a safer world.
In 2023, ASME published TGP-1, Guidelines to ASME Standards in Hydrogen Value Chain. The intent is to enable users to quickly identify the relevant Codes and Standards for their various applications. This guidance document provides high-level insights into the existing standards for practitioners across the hydrogen value chain, including engineers, managers, owners, system operators, manufacturers, the public, inspection parties, regulators, and other stakeholders.
ASTM International is a globally recognized leader in the development and delivery of voluntary consensus standards. Today, 13,000 ASTM standards are used around the world to improve product quality, enhance health and safety, strengthen market access and trade, and build consumer confidence. ASTM plays a significant role in advancing hydrogen technologies through standards development, technical committee leadership, and industry engagement. ASTM’s D03.14 Hydrogen and Fuel Cells work spans gaseous hydrogen fuel quality (e.g., D7941 ), sampling and analysis methods (e.g., D7892 ), and material evaluation standards (e.g., D7651 ) used across production, storage, delivery, and fuel cell applications.
The Compressed Gas Association (CGA) is the leading authority on safety standards for industrial, medical, food, and specialty gases and equipment. Since 1913, CGA has developed nearly 500 globally recognized standards, trusted by ISO, NFPA, the United Nations, and regulatory bodies worldwide. Representing more than 170 member companies who support over 34,000 U.S. jobs and contribute more than $10 billion to the American economy, CGA advances safety, drives innovation, and fosters professional development across the compressed gas industry.
CGA has been developing hydrogen standards for more than 70 years. Three of CGA’s hydrogen standards, G-5, H-3, and H-5 are American National Standards
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