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The EHA welcomes the European Commission’s Communication “A sustainable future for transport: Towards an integrated, technology-led and user friendly system” (COM 2009/279/4) that was presented on June 17, 2009. The EHA fully supports the Commission’s reference to the need for the implementation of demontration projects and public interventions with regards to the development of infrastructure [...]
In view of the launch of the European Energy Programme for Recovery, the EU Green Car Initiative, Clean Bus Financing Facility and Renewable Energy Financing Facility the EHA invited the European Investment Bank to its AGM and European National Association Meeting (ENAM) on June 17, 2009 in Brussels to explain more details on these ancing [...]
On May 26-28, 2009 the European Commission organised a tree day conference on “Sustainable Development, a challenge for European Research”. In his opening speach, EU Research Commissioner Janez Potočnik indicated that in the first two years of the EU’s Seventh Framework Programme (FP7), 44% of the budget for collaborative research has been allocated to research [...]
EHA attended the Convenant of the Mayors event organised by Energie Cités and the Climate Alliance who are both managing the new office of the Convenantin Brussels. There are now more than 450 cities member of the Convenant, which is supported by the European Commission. The objective of the Convenant is through benchmarking of sustainable [...]
The EHA was invited to participate in an EU Policy Forum with Bosch and JTI at Hannover Fair. Dr. Richard Aumayer of Bosch Automotive emphasized the importance of the right communication on future transport: Bosch anticipates that this future will consist of both battery and fuel cell vehicles. Gijs Vriesman, the newly elected chair of [...]
The EHA will be present at the 15th Group Exhibit Hydrogen + Fuel Cells at HANNOVER MESSE 2009 – 20-24 April 2009. Together with the EHA’s Spanish, Italian and Belgian national association members, AEH2, H2IT and VSWB, the EHA booth will feature information on how hydrogen is extending the range of electric transport, renewable energy [...]
The EHA organised a meeting with the Brussels Transport Authority STIB, to discuss the integration of the hydrogen buses in their fleet. STIB has recently conducted a well to wheel analysis of alternative vehicles and demonstrated an interest in the use of hydrogen and natural gas mixtures to facilitate the development of internal technical expertise [...]
The EHA presented national strategies at the Roads2HyCom Workshop “REGIONAL DEVELOPMENT AND HYDROGEN PROJECTS” organised by Roads2HyCom in co-operation with HyRaMP, the European Regions and Municipalitities Partnership for Hydrogen and Fuel Cells on March 4, 2009 in Brussels. The EHA highlighted the developments in France (H2E project coordinated by Air Liquide) the German National Innovation [...]
The EU Network of Excellence, HySafe, that is bringing together the expertise of a large number of European hydrogen safety experts, held its final General Meeting on February 24-26, 2009 in Brussels. The EHA was invited to present its activities in Brussels highlighting the various EU dossiers that are affecting the development of the use [...]
The EHA contributed to the European Economic Social Committtee’s exploratory opinion “Education and training needs for the carbon-free energy society” (TEN 364) that has been requested by EU Commissioner for Energy Andris Piebalgs. At a hearing that was attended by the commissoner the EHA suggested the creation of an EU network of National Clean Energy [...]