California Plans for Interstate H2 Fueling Station Network Take Shape SACRAMENTO, CA - When Arnold Schwarzenegger proclaimed in his governorship campaign he would set up hydrogen fueling stations every 20 miles on every California Interstate highway, lots of people wrote
it off as blue sky campaign rhetoric.
H2 Car Co. Wants to Convert Trucks, Sports Cars to Hydrogen, Talks with Possible Partners LOS ANGELES - The Hydrogen Car Company (HCC), launched here recently (H&FCL Nov. 03), is making plans to convert vehicles with internal combustion engines - from sports cars to Hummers - to hydrogen. As the year gets underway, it is already deep in discussions with well-known companies in moving toward that objective.
DoE to Cooperate with India in H2 Three-Wheelers; Country Plans Infrastructure NEW DELHI/WASHINGTON, DC - India hopes to set up hydrogen fueling stations in select cities in the next two or three years as pilot projects, and expects to convert a sizeable number of two- and three-wheeled vehicles to hydrogen, perhaps blended with natural gas, according to an Indian government announcement last month.
Europe Plans Spending $3.4 Billion Over 12 Years on Large Hydrogen Projects BRUSSELS - The European Commission wants to spend Euro 2.8 billion ($3.4 billion) on hydrogen energy technology between now and 2015 as part of a new initiative to help jumpstart what the Commission called “lackluster” recent economic performance in the group of nations.
Briefly Noted: Berlin H2 Stations construction started in late November of the second hydrogen fueling station in Germany’s capital Berlin under the umbrella of the nine-member Clean Energy Partnership (CEP)
Briefly Noted: Trittin German environment minister Juergen Trittin called for European legislation that would force automobile manufacturers to reduced average new-vehicle carbon dioxide emissions to 120 grams/kilometer by 2012
Briefly Noted: New Italian H2 Ass'n. Italy has a new hydrogen and fuel cell association: H2IT (Associazione Italiana per l’Idrogeno e Celle Combustibile), headquartered in Milan, held its board meeting Dec. 12
Briefly Noted: Proton Energy development of lightweight unitized regenerative fuel cell technology for unmanned aerial vehicles.
Briefly Noted: PNNL/NASA Collaboration Pacific Northwest National Laboratory (PNNL), Richland, WA and the National Aeronautics and Space Administration’s (NASA) Glenn Research Center, Cleveland, OH will cooperate in the development of sealing technologies for solid oxide fuel cell stacks
Briefly Noted: UK Wind Energy submit bids for what may be the world’s biggest wind power project yet: some 1,000 wind turbines to be constructed off Britain’s coast, generating between 5.4 and 7.2 gigawatts
Briefly Noted: Astris Energi gearing up to start pilot production of Powerstack (TM) MC 250 fuel cell power module in its facility in Vlasim, Czech Republic.
Briefly Noted: More FC Buses Amsterdam’s transit authority GVB has begun operating three fuel cell DaimlerChrysler Citaro buses on two routes
Briefly Noted: SOFC Forecast worldwide market for solid oxide fuel cells (SOFCs) is likely to almost triple to $335 million by 2008 with an average annual growth rate of about 24%
Events New date & location: The “Fifth Annual International Symposium on Distributed Energy Resources”
