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Water Splitting Is Ready for the Mass Market

Water Splitting Is Ready for the Mass Market

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State of the art of electrolyzer technologies, © Fraunhofer ISE

The splitting of water to produce hydrogen will become a requirement if renewable electricity is to be converted into other energy carriers and industrial base materials to transform the energy market and meet climate targets in Germany. Expectations are that by 2050, electrolyzer capacity will run into the tens of gigawatts countrywide. Nowadays, most devices are either customized or manufactured in small numbers. As part of a study conducted on behalf of the German transportation ministry (more…)

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Brussels Passes RED II

Brussels Passes RED II

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Miguel A. Canete, © European Commission, E. Ansotte

After three years of negotiations, the RED II bill was accepted by the European Commission, Parliament and Council in mid-June. Now, the parliament and council will need to make the agreement legally binding by approving the text of the renewable energy directive. (more…)

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Interview with Robert Habeck, German Green Party

Interview with Robert Habeck, German Green Party

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Robert Habeck

Robert Habeck is not your typical politician. It may be easier to picture him as a band member of Green Day than a member of a political party. This January, he entered the national stage after having been voted in as one of two co-chairs to lead the Greens in Germany. As a result, he needed to give up his post in the cabinet of Schleswig-Holstein, where he had served a second term as the state’s environment minister upon his confirmation in summer 2017. (more…)

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India: Looking Beyond the Oil Market

India: Looking Beyond the Oil Market

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Tata’s fuel cell-driven Starbus, © Tata Motors

Due to a population that continues to grow and a booming economy, India will be the country to experience the largest increase in energy demand by 2040, according to the IEA’s latest World Energy Outlook published in 2017. The immense hunger for energy is being driven mainly by additions of generation capacity as well as electric vehicles. The government knows that fossil fuels will be able to meet only part of that huge demand. (more…)

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WHEC 2018 – Full Steam Ahead

WHEC 2018 – Full Steam Ahead

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Video message by T. Nejat Veziroglu

Attendees from Europe, Asia and even North America had a long way to travel to this year’s World Hydrogen Energy Conference. In the end, however, more than 550 came to the event, which took place June 17 to 22 in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil. They were rewarded with a lot of interesting material. What caught the imagination of many was the story of natural hydrogen (more…)

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