Gov. Schwarzenegger Names Alan Lloyd New California EPA Secretary SACRAMENTO, CA - Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger has appointed Dr. Alan Lloyd, long-term advocate of hydrogen energy and currently chairman of California’s Air Resources Board (CARB), as new secretary of the state’s Environmental Protection Agency (CalEPA).
German Fuel Cell Groups Form National Alliance, Draft Roadmap BERLIN - In an effort to boost public and political support for fuel cell technology, some 20 major German fuel cell organizations and initiatives last month joined forces to form a national Fuel Cell Alliance.
Renewables: ACORE Urges Speedy Action, Unity in Commercializing Renewable Energies in U.S. WASHINGTON, DC - A key renewable energy organization is calling on American policymakers to come up with strategies that recognize diversity and variability in resources and other factors across the land but that still unite the nation in the common drive towards wide commercial use of renewables.
Opinion: A New Common Cause By Robert Rose Editor’s Note: This is another in a series of occasional columns intended as a forum for readers. Contributions are welcome. The editor reserves the right to reject suggestions and edit material to fit our format without, of course, changing the author’s basic views. Here, U.S. Fuel Council president Robert Rose takes a look at what lies ahead this year - the good, the not so good, and the unknown.
Production: Electrolyzer Maker Avalence Eyes Low-Cost Renewables Market MILFORD, CT - The basic idea is seductive: Produce electricity from wind or solar power, plug in an electrolyzer - and voila, you produce and store clean renewable hydrogen energy, preferably at high pressure, for when the wind doesn’t blow or the sun doesn’t shine.
Business, Policy Leaders Discuss 2020 Hydrogen Vision, Projects for NY State ALBANY, NY - A hydrogen fueling station network along New York state’s highways, converting school buses in Albany and Buffalo to hydrogen, pool vans running on hydrogen in the New York, New Jersey and Connecticut metro regions - these were some of the ideas tossed out and debated at a New York State Hydrogen Vision Workshop held here Dec. 14-15.
Briefly Noted: GM/Dow Freeport Phase II General Motors and Dow Chemical Co. have launched Phase II of their joint Freeport, TX project to prove the viability of hydrogen fuel cells, operating here at Dow’s huge complex on by-product hydrogen (H&FCL March 04).
Briefly Noted: Medis Israel Facility Medis Technologies Ltd., New York, NY, opened a new 34,000 sq. ft facility Dec. 22 in the Global Park Technology Complex in Lod, Israel.
Events Japan’s “1st International Fuel Cell Exhibition” is scheduled for January 19-21, at Tokyo Big Sight, concurrent with a “FC EXPO Technical Conference.”
