H2 Energy Spotting: biggest Austrian Energy and Steel Companies go H2
Austrian main electricity supplier Verbund and steel producer Voestalpine are planing by 2018 a hydrogen 6MW eletrolyser pilot plant and knowledge centre of 20 mln in…
H2 Funding: New German NIP II approved: €165 mln for FCH till 2019
The German Government on September 28, 2016 approved the second National Innovation Program for 2016 - 2026. The program indicates a budget of €250 mln for…
Electric vehicles will need an extra of 150 GW by 2050
A new European Environment Agency report concluded that the growth in electric vehicle use will result in extra energy demand in the European Union (EU-28) of…
FC powered material handling on the rise thanks to FCH JU support
The HAWL and HyLIFT-EUROPE projects supported by the FCH JU deploying FC powered material handling vehicles are progressing quite well. The HAWL project recently added another 36 new…
FCH Thunderclap: join the buzz on October 8, 2016!
Join the now! Thunderclap is a tool that lets a message be heard when you and your colleagues/friends say it together. Think of it as an "online…
FC-EV Spotting: moving beyond a concept
On the one year anniversary of DieselGate, Transport and Environment a lobby organisatiosn of local transprot authorities relaesed a report on actual emissions of Euro 5 and…
FC Bus Spotting: CHIC FC BUS project clocks 9 mln km
As London reveiled its 50 battery powered electric bus fleet on September 14, 2016, the 8 fuel cell electric buses are steaming ahead on the RV1…
FC Train Spotting: InnoTrans 2016
During InnoTrans 2016, Alstom revealed its Coradia Lint train with fuel-cell propulsion system. Two years ago Alstom and four German governmental bodies (Niedersachsen, Nordrhein-Westfalen, Baden-Württemberg and Hessen)…
On owning energy storage….
On September 19 EASE, the Euroepean Association for the Storage of Energy, of which the EHA is a partner organisation published its recommendations for the ownership…
More in store for energy storage?
A year ago an unprecedented leak in the Aliso Canyon natural gas reservoir, that had been feeding the network of natural gas plants mobilized in peak time…