Briefly Noted: Wind Power Milestone Wind power in the United States reached a new milestone with a grand total of more than 10,000 MW installed capacity. Texas now leads all other states in wind-generated electricity with a total of 2,370 MW capacity installed.
Briefly Noted: Shell/Ohio State Shell Hydrogen, Houston, TX has awarded a $1 million research project to Ohio State University’s chemical and biomolecular engineering department to research carbon dioxide-hydrogen membrane separation.
Briefly Noted: NHA Employment Site The National Hydrogen Association (NHA) has set up a new employment website, the Hydrogen and Fuel Cell Job Board.
Briefly Noted: Hydrogenics Hybrid Effort Canadian fuel cell systems designer Hydrogenics Corp., Mississauga, ON has joined the Plug-In Hybrid Development Consortium with an eye of bringing fuel cells to plug-in vehicles.
Briefly Noted: Giner/CERDEC Giner Electrochemical Systems LLC (GES), a joint venture of Giner, Inc. and General Motors, has been awarded a $830,000 contract to develop a 250 W field ruggedized direct methanol fuel cell by the U.S. Army’s Communications Electronics Research Development & Engineering Center.
Briefly Noted: HotModule for France What seems to be one of the first multi-residential fuel cell cogeneration plants in France is scheduled to come on stream this fall in Paris.
Briefly Noted: H2 ECOnomy Test Systems Yerevan, Armenia-based H2 ECOnomy, a fuel cell technologies developer in the country’s Ararat Valley, says it is now offering new fuel cell test systems.
Briefly Noted: Hydrogen Engine Center Hydrogen Engine Center (HEC), the Algona, IA-based maker of hydrogen internal combustion engines, says it has started production and delivery of its new near-zero emission line of engines.
