Connecting Europe’s energy and transport infrastructureIn the coming weeks the EU Parliament and the Member States will further discuss the plans for the EU Connecting Europe Facility (CEF), and the accompanying TEN T and TEN E guidelines, that should facilitate smooth interconnections and allow the integration of the first zero emission energy carriers for transport, electricity and hydrogen, into Europe’s transport network. On November 5, 2012 the CEF amendments were discussed in Parliament and as mentioned in our September report, combined efforts with other alternative fuel organisations resulted in amendments seeking to integrate funding for innovative technologies for road transport that the EU Commission proposal failed to ensure. In fact over the last weeks announcements of increased cross border cooperation in Scandinavia and the start of the TEN T Hydrogen Infrastructure for Transport, HIT project, that HyER facilitated in collaboration with the EHA and that will be featured at the next TEN T Days on November 27 -29, 2012 in Brussels
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