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…
Needed: “Giga” models for FC market introduction
With fuel cell heating appliances included in the Funding of the German program for the support of energy efficiency (APEE) that took off on the beginning of…