Amidst all the autonomous cars and solar energy powered airplanes, hydrogen is slowly clawing its way back to relevance.

Toshiba Corporation announced earlier this month the opening of the Toshiba Group Hydrogen Energy Research & Development Centre (HRDC) at its Fuchu Complex in western Tokyo. The new Centre will concentrate Group-wide initiatives to realise a hydrogen economy, and will drive forward the development and demonstration of solutions integrating hydrogen-related energy technologies. Toshiba Group aims to increase the sales of hydrogen-related business to 100 billion yen by 2020.