• EHA Newsletter 01/09 Edit Post

    January marked the start of a crucial year for the EU at a critical moment for the hydrogen and fuel cell industry in Europe. Most of the  massive economic recovery plans that are being announced at EU and national level all link financial support are linked to sustainable development. The EHA Board on Janaury  27 therefore discussed  a set of key messages that will be presented to EU and national decision makers to emphasize the key role of hydrogen as a clean energy vector to facilitate EU's energy and tranport policy goals and stimulate economic recovery. In many European countries constructive efforts are underway (Norway, Sweden, Denmark, Netherlands, Germany, Spain,  France, Italy) to establish national strategic alliances  mirroring the EU Joint Undertaking for fuel cells and hydrogen to support the uptake of the first applications. Many regions and large municipalities are important catalysts in this process. The EHA is committed to expand its support to these initiaitves in 2009. On March 4, 2009 in Brussels the EHA organizes a National Strategy Round Table and National Association Workshop at the EU project Roads2HyCom seminar on Regional development . For more information see under EHA in... read more

  • EHA in Action

    Updated 27-01-2009 The EHA Board invited the new interim director of the JTI, Philippe Vannson, to its last meeting last Janaury 27 in Brussels to discuss topics for cooperation. The EHA has sent a letter to the JTI Governing Board offering... read more

    Updated 21-01-2009 After the vote on the Emission Trading System ETS, last December the EU Commission is now embarking on a tedious task to adopt Community wide and fully-harmonised implementing measures for allocating the allowances referred to in paragraphs 4,... read more

  • EU Policy News

    Updated 29-01-2009 The Commission unveiled a € 3,5 bln proposal for a Regulation to grant Community support to strategic energy projects that is part of its Economic Recovery Plan . A total of € 3.5 billion is proposed for investment in... read more

    Updated 22-01-2009 The EU Parliament Environment Committee approved a report on the new Integrated Pollution Prevention and Control (IPPC) Directive on Janaury 22, 2009 , that will require at least 52,000 industrial operators, including hydrogen production installations to obtain emission permits.... read more

    Updated 21-01-2009 The EU Commission Vice President Antonio Tajani, in charge of Transport announced today the action plan at EU level to tackle the chronic problems created by transport in Europe’s towns and cities. Speaking at the CIVITAS II Final Conference,... read more

    Updated 21-01-2009 In a own intiative report on the EU’s Second Strategic Energy Review  that was proposed by the European Commission in November 2008 and includes Energy policy priorities up to 2050 as security of supply, energy efficiency and renewable energy,... read more

    Updated 21-01-2009 Last november The Commission has issued a Green Paper “Towards a secure, sustainable and competitive European energy network” and opened a consultation to gather input for its further actions. The consultation is open till March 31, 2009. The Commission... read more

  • Hydrogen Hits the Roads

    Updated 28-01-2009 In an interview with the German car magazine “Auto Motor und Sport” on January 28, 2009 Daimler’s CEO, Dieter Zetsche announced the start of small series production of fuel cell cars from the middle of 2009. Daimler is looking... read more

    Updated 23-01-2009 The Copenhagen City Council plans to purchase 15 hydrogen-powered vehicles to showcase the local authority’s sustainable energy initiatives in time for the Copenhagen Climate Conference. The City  is pushing ahead with plans to purchase 15 adapted electric cars at... read more

  • National News

    Updated 21-01-2009 The Italian Ministry of Industry presented the 30 winning proposals on Energy Efficiency , among which three on hydrogen and fuel cells, that will be financed and approved by the National Industrial Innovation programme Industria 2015. In total 86... read more

    Updated 07-01-2009 The French Environment minister Jean-Louis Borloo presented a proposal with 104 concrete measures providing a legal toolbox as a result of a nation wide survey the “Grennelle de l’environnement” held in in 2007:  the proposed measures focus mainly on... read more

    Updated 06-01-2009 The „NRW Hydrogen HyWay” was inaugurated by Dr. Jens Baganz, secretary of State for the economy of the German state of North Rhine-Westphalia, last November during the 8th annual meeting of the competence network Fuel Cell and Hydrogen NRW... read more

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