HyER board members this month, on the occasion of the HyER Board meeting in London, facilitated a meeting with UK representatives, London Hydrogen Partnership, and the project manager for Source London, a city wide electric vehicle charging network in London.
HyER Board Member Sven Wolf presented HyER’s view on hydrogen and EV infrastructure roll-out along key European corridors at the The TEN-T Days 2011 “Connecting Europe: Putting Europe’s economy on the move” hosted by the European Commission in Antwerp, November 29–30.
Better Place and the Eldan Group, a car rental company in Israel, announced in December that they signed an agreement to lease and rent hundreds of electric cars. Eldan will acquire hundreds of Renault Fluence Z.E. electric cars from Better Place in 2012. Eldan is responding to customer demand for EVs and joining the global green trend. It will be the first to offer its customers the electric cars for rent in Israel.
EcoIsland is an initiative to make the UK’s Isle of Wight a demonstrator of future energy systems and smart grid technology; it is the largest single sustainability project in the UK. To date the project has delivered a £25 million project to install solar PV panels on 3,500 social homes and more than 500 air-source heat pumps, as well as a ‘Greenback’ consumer reward card in collaboration with 65 local companies with good sustainability practices.
The 11th Annual meeting of the Fuel Cell and Hydrogen Network Energy Agency – NRW presented that the region is well on its way to leading research and business area of Energy and Climate Change.
More than 150 experts and policy makers gathered to discuss the market potential of hydrogen and fuel cells technologies in Hessen. “Innovation meets the market” was the event’s motto.
The Après-midi H2 conference will take place December 19th 2011 at the Luxembourg Palace Paris, France. The event is organized by the pHyrenees, a local hydrogen organization representing the French region of Midi Pyrénées.
Hyundai has officially confirmed that it has joined the H2moves Scandinavia project, following the opening of the project’s hydrogen station in Oslo on the 21st of November. The project includes a large-scale Hydrogen Road Tour scheduled for summer 2012. the members will drive across Europe with 6 -10 electric cars powered by fuel cells.
The Intelligent Energy/Lotus hydrogen fuel cell black cabs are to be deployed under a new project, HyTEC – Hydrogen Transport for European Cities, which consists of sixteen companies from five European countries. The deployment will consist of: one new Air Products refuelling station, fifteen black cabs and five Suzuki Bergmann scooters.
The European Commission has presented an €80 billion package for research and innovation funding, as part of the drive to create sustainable growth and new jobs in Europe. The new programme, “Horizon 2020″ will make it easier for applicants to seek funding and is designed to help bring more good ideas to market.
The “European Grid Declaration on Electricity Network Development and Nature Conservation in Europe” was handed to EU Energy Commissioner on 10 November 2011. The objective is the unlocking of Europe’s full potential for renewable energy via the modernisation and expansion of its power grids.