Briefly Noted: Plug Power Plug Power is firing on all cylinders: In mid-October, the Latham, NY-based fuel cell developer announced it had signed a strategic partner agreement with Russia’s national innovation company, New Energy Projects (NIC NEP), to collaborate on technology and market developments in Russia.
Briefly Noted: Alstom/EPRI/We Energies France’s power and rail equipment maker Alstom is teaming with the Electric Power Research Institute (EPRI) and Wisconsin-based We Energies utility to demonstrate a novel carbon dioxide capture process.
Briefly Noted: Saint-Gobain In other French news, Saint-Gobain High Performance Materials, a part of French engineered materials conglomerate Compagnie de Saint-Gobain, has linked up with Germany’s Forschungszentrum Juelich national laboratory to jointly start developing solid oxide fuel cells.
Briefly Noted: UK Aviation CO2 Warning Britain’s government must do more to curb the expected huge expansion in air travel, otherwise risk vastly exceeding its self-imposed goal of reducing carbon dioxide emissions by 60% by 2050.
