H2-international Blog

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The Toyota Mirai Is Here

What furthered my interest in hydrogen was a presentation in 1989 by Joachim Gretz, the head of the EU’s Joint Research Center in Ispra, Italy, about the then running Quebec project. I had already been interested in the technology many years prior to that event: I can still remember clearly how the board chair of ...
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/ Akio Toyoda, Budd-e, California, Denmark, Golf, Hamburg, Hyundai, Las Vegas, Milan, Mirai, Nikolaus W. Schües, Rom, Shinzo Abe, Toyota, worldwide
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Joi – A New Player on the Market

At the beginning of this year, Joi Scientific became the latest newcomer competition in the H2 industry. Shortly after, the company announced that it had successfully completed its first round of funding. “Joi Scientific’s Hydrogen 2.0 technology is a new approach to make hydrogen a practical, clean and cost-competitive energy source. It is no longer ...
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/ Dean Woodman, Florida, GoPro, Hydrogen 2.0, Joi, Kennedy Space Center, North America, Scientific, Traver Kennedy
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Ballard: China Outlook Strikes Optimistic Chord

The conference call of Canadian-based Ballard Power Systems about the latest figures from the last quarter of 2015 – and consequentially, for all of last year – revealed some very intriguing news, comments and plans for the future. I will refrain from discussing the figures (or losses posted) and interpreting them (how the individual business ...
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/ air pollution, Audi, Backup, Ballard, Boeing, China, London, North America, Outlook
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Tesla: After Sharp Drop, Shares Experience Strong Rebound

The losses of the US-based company increased during the last quarter of 2015 to USD 320 million. Over the entire year, they added up to around USD 980 million. Whether you choose GAAP (the default rulebook) or the visually more enticing non-GAAP accounting standards (with the latter, the result per share seems to improve “cosmetically”) ...
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/ capital, capitalization, GM, Hawaii, liquidity, Model X, Nevada, North America, prize, range, SolarCity, Tesla
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Kapferer Succeeds Müller

A former state secretary with the German health ministry succeeds a former state secretary for the chancellor – albeit not politically but in a lobby group. Hildegard Müller, who became a member of the German parliament in 2002 and worked closely with Chancellor Angela Merkel between 2005 and 2008, stepped down from her post as ...
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/ Angela Merkel, Chancellor, Germany, Hildegard Müller, OECD, RWE, Stefan Kapferer
Vaillant-SHK-2016

Fuel Cell Manufacturers Target Installers

Is that already the market for fuel cell heating systems which everyone has worked toward for so long? No, not quite, because the Technology Rollout Program (TEP) has not yet come into force. And as long as neither manufacturers nor customers have some kind of planning security, nothing will happen. That much became clear during ...
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/ BDR Group, Brötje, CHP, ene.field, Essen, Germany, Installer, manufacturer, Public funding, Remeha, SHK
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CHP Act Amendment Boosts Demand

“Through the first six weeks of this year alone, we received more requests than during all of 2015,” Andreas Frömmel from German FuelCell Energy Solutions reported during the E-world 2016. That should come as no surprise: Large-scale fuel cell plants have gained in popularity ever since the German parliament amended the CHP Act at the ...
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/ CHP, Demand, E-world, E.On, FCES, Frömmel, FuelCell Energy Solutions, worldwide
Fuji Electric: Far East Takeover

Fuji Electric: Far East Takeover

Japanese Fuji Electric bought up N2telligence, based in Wismar, Germany, at the beginning of this year. The company, which had introduced several TriGeneration and QuattroGeneration modules in collaboration with its Japanese partner (see ZBT system), announced in a press release that Fuji Electric Europe had acquired a majority stake (70%) in N2telligence on Jan. 11, ...
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/ Asia, CHP, Fuji Electric, N2telligence, QuattroGeneration, Takeover, Wismar
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Green Hydrogen Use in Refineries

At the beginning of this year, the German Hydrogen and Fuel Cell Association had its first-ever H2 economic forum in the German capital. On Feb. 18, 2016, around 50 representatives from politics and business were invited to the Dutch embassy in Berlin to discuss green hydrogen opportunities with Germany’s federal environment minister, Barbara Hendricks ...
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/ BP Europe, Business, EU Commission, Europe, Green Hydrogen, Green washing, HyCO4, ILUC, Netherlands, politics, Refineries, Rotterdam
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Formula E in the Midst of Berlin

The next Formula E race in Germany won’t play out on the Tempelhof Field – as originally planned – but in former East Berlin. As the area that used to be the city’s airport was repurposed this year, the organizers agreed on a May 21 race track exactly on the border between the districts Central ...
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/ Alexanderplatz, Berlin, Daniel Abt, ePrix, Formular E, Germany, Tempelhof Field
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Blue Hamster Falls into Deep Slumber

German Mossau Energy, which closed down its business at the end of 2015, had not had any luck in finding either a successor to the company or an investor for its Blue Hamster idea. Helmut Janßen said to Ostfriesische Nachrichten: “Mossau Energy is no more. That has nothing to do with insolvency.” Eighty-one-year-old Günter Mossau, ...
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/ Blue Hamster, electrolysis, Germany, Kerafol, Middle East, Mossau Energy, successor
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Energy Storage Europe Continues to Grow

Expectations exceeded – this best sums up the three days from March 15 to 17 in Düsseldorf, Germany. In its fifth year, the Energy Storage Europe (ESE) and the four events taking place at the same time were able to attract an even greater number of participants: around 50% more exhibitors and 60% more attendees ...
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/ Düsseldorf, Eicke Weber, Energy Storage, Europe, Europe, Intersolar, Munich
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THE E-JOURNAL ON

hydrogen and fuel cells

H2-international is the English-language e-journal of choice for everyone who wants to stay at the forefront of news about hydrogen and fuel cells. In-depth articles about science, technology and the latest developments keep readers up to date on advances in the hydrogen and fuel cell sector as well as the electric vehicle and the energy storage market. The focus is on detailed yet clearly written news stories by industry journalists and R&D experts.

In-depth news articles on hydrogen, fuel cells, energy storage and electric transportation.

The e-journal is intended for readers who are looking for in-depth news articles on hydrogen, fuel cells, energy storage and electric transportation. The main audience consists of professionals and executives working in all parts of the energy market.. This group comprises decision makers at production and trading companies, representatives for associations, government agencies as well as universities, and staff members at gas companies, carmakers and their suppliers.

The publisher Sven Geitmann, owner and founder of the Hydrogeit publishing house, had taken an intense interest in hydrogen and fuel cells as early as 1997 and became a contributor to energieportal24 and H2Report in 2000. After he wrote a number of technical books, he founded his own publishing company in the northwest of Berlin. In 2005, he took on responsibility for the former “H2Tec” magazine, which he renamed “HZwei”. This trade publication soon boasted a revamped design and more issues per year and grew into the quarterly must-read for everyone following the hydrogen and fuel cell market.

In 2015, Hydrogeit Verlag created the global English-language edition H2-international. Since then, it has kept readers in all corners of the world up to date on what’s happening in the sector.