Top Ten Reasons to Join the EHA
September 7, 20091. The EHA promotes hydrogen as an important energy carrier in a low carbon economy: Hydrogen is widely recognized as a clean and enabling energy carrier in developing a fossil fuel clean energy and transport system and to reduce drastically local emissions. Hydrogen as an energy storage medium should become and integral part of EU’s future smart grids to balance intermittent energy sources. In order to accelerate the commercial market for hydrogen applications, the EHA is informing a broad range of key decision makers, as well as the general public to ensure that the use of hydrogen is integrated in EU policy and regulatory frameworks. 2. EHA has become a point of reference for EU, national and local decision makers: In 2000 five national hydrogen organisations established the European Hydrogen Association (EHA) to promote the use of hydrogen as an energy vector in Europe. In 2004 major European industries active in the development of hydrogen and fuel cell technologies joined the EHA and enforced this effort to create a commercial market for stationary and transport applications and a role as market leader for European industries. In 2005 the EHA opened its office in Brussels and has become in a relatively [...]