EU Commission calls its “bad air” members to Brussels
The EU Commissioner for the Environment, Karmenu Vella, summoned the repsonsible ministers of Germany (yes), France (yes), Italy, Spain, UK, Romania, Hungary, Czech Republic and Slovakia to…
First highlight 2018 : 20 MW electrolyser planned in Northern Netherlands
AkzoNobel Specialty Chemicals and Gasunie New Energy have joined forces on January 10, 2018 to investigate the possible to install the largest large scale electrolysis unit…
Hype @ Paris Orly!
Paris Orly will be the first airport in France with a public hydrogen station. Designed and installed by Air Liquide and ADP, with the support of…
To be continued in 2018: linking the “H2ot Spots”
As EU Member States in the last TTE Council meeting of the year on December 18, 2017 committed to a target of 27% renewable energy of…
EU Parliament boosts Efficiency and Renewable targets
On November 28, 2017 two reports on the revision of Energy Efficiency Directive (EED) and on the recast of the Renewable Directive of 2009 were approved by…
Zero emission 1.800 km Roman holidays in a FCEV!
Together with St. Nicolas a Hyundai ix35 Fuel Cell left Brussels on December 5, 2017 to embark on a 1.800 km ’Hydrogen Tour, organized by EHA member association H2IT,…
All a board! First H2 maritime shuttle service sails off.
November 16, 2017, the Hydroville, the first passenger shuttle that received a Certificate of Class from Lloyd’s Register approval to burn diesel and hydrogen in its 2…
Shell CO2 love letter to UNFCCC chair talks H2
In a letter dated November 28, 2017 to the Executive Secretary of UN Climate Change, Patricia Espinosa, Royal Dutch Shell’s Chief Executive Officer Ben van Beurden…
Desinvest in action: oil firms moving out of fossil
Just a week after the Norwegian central bank, which runs the country’s sovereign wealth fund, $1tn fund – the world’s biggest wealth fund built on Norwegian hydrocarbon stock–…
Status Green Climate Finance after COP23
COP23 taking place from November 6 -17, 2017 in Bonn was branded as a "techncial COP dilluting expectations on a Paris style breakthrough and mainly focussing on…