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La Grande Nation Hangs On To Nuclear Power

In the 1960s and 1970s, France’s industry and research departments used to be very proactive in fuel cell development. Then, 1974 came to pass and with it the slogan of “all-electric, all-nuclear” (tout-éléctrique, tout-nucléaire). The number of fuel cell projects fell drastically and remained at its low level until about the end of the 1990s ...
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/ AFHYPAC, Air Liquide, Alstom, Areva, Ataway, Axane, CEA, EDF, Europe, France, Helion, Mahytec, McPhy, Meziane Boudellal, Nuclear Power, Pragma Industries, Symbio FCell
Christian-Paschereit

The Invisible Flame

The hope for future power plants has a name: BlueStep. A prototype at the Technical University of Berlin burns hydrogen and oxygen with the help of wet air – or, in other words, with the help of wet steam. The project’s predecessor, Greenest, which was launched with the same intention of advancing the development of ...
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/ BlueStep, ETH Zürich, Europe, oxygen, Panagiotis Stathopoulos, Paschereit, prototype, Wet Combustion
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Metering: Hydrogen for the Energy Industry

“Regenerative fuel gases” like hydrogen generated through electrolyte processes constitute new product offerings in transport and trade. They create new material and energy flows and alter the product portfolio of the energy industry. Both materials and energy are traded and distributed. In Germany, these transactions require metering devices that have undergone official calibration ...
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/ calibration, Germany, Klaus Steiner, measure, Metering, Metrology, PTB, TR-G 19
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High-Throughput Method to Develop Alkaline Fuel Cells

The NEMEZU project launched at the beginning of 2016 is expected to develop high-throughput methods to screen new types of material combinations quickly but close to a real-life fuel cell environment. This project is planned to map the entire supply chain involved in producing alkaline fuel cells – from electrolyte materials ...
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/ AFC, Alkaline Fuel Cells, cobalt, Germany, Nafion, NEMEZU, nickel, RUB, sputtering
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New CPN Deputy Spokesperson

The members of industry network Clean Power Net (CPN) have elected a new deputy spokesperson during this year’s annual assembly in Berlin. Whereas Henrik Colell, CTO of Heliocentris Energy Solutions, was confirmed as the spokesman for the fifth year in a row, the members voted for a “new face” when it came to the deputy ...
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/ Clean Power Net, CPN, Deutsche Bahn, Frank Luckau, Germany, Heliocentris, Henrik Colell, Karsten Menzel, Proton Motor, Wolfgang Axthammer
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Wind Energy Storage in the North East

The 2014 version of the German Renewable Energy Sources Act (EEG) allows operators in case of a grid overload to “reduce the feed-in” of green power, but with the obligation to log the incident. The ones who pay for it are the utility customers because the owners of wind farms receive their usual feed-in payment ...
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/ Crotogino, Department of Energy, energy, Germany, Hamelmann, Lehmann, Sandlaß, Stralsund, Symposium, Wind
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Electric Transportation Is Not a Carmaker’s Privilege

The expansion of renewable energies in the transportation sector requires new types of propulsion and energy supply systems for all means of transport, as environmental hazards can have an impact on a country’s population, especially in metropolitan areas. Transportation on inland waterways shows enormous potential for improvement because today’s propulsion systems will not be able ...
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/ BEHALA, e4ships, ELEKTRA, Germany, Holbach, Mitropoulos, propeller, ships, TU Berlin
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Fuel Cell Outlook Never Been Better

The large increase in the number of orders placed with each one of the fuel cell businesses analyzed in this and following articles promises a very bright future for the industry. Prototypes give way to mass production. The recent stabilization of the oil price is an effective mental tool. The road to profitability is there ...
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/ Beacon Falls, FuelCell Energy, mass production, North America, Outlook, potential, promising, stock market
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Plug Power: Growth Not Losing Speed

The fourth quarter brought another growth boost by 70% to USD 38.4 million compared to the same quarter last year. Plug Power’s total revenue added up to more than USD 103 million, although it could have been 3.6 million more if the sale-leaseback transactions hadn’t forced the company to distribute the amount for tax reasons ...
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/ BMW, North America
Audi Gets the Fuel Cell

Audi Gets the Fuel Cell

As predicted several times before, #dieselgate is the driver of upcoming changes at German carmaker Volkswagen. In March 2016, it was said that the Wolfsburg-based corporation would concentrate all fuel cell activities at its Audi subsidiary. This will necessitate a move of most of the fuel cell research, which has so far been conducted in ...
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/ Audi, dieselgate, production, R&D, Salzgitter, Volkswagen, VW, Wolfsburg, worldwide
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LOHC – A Reusable Bottle for Hydrogen

Five years ago, some called carbazole the “wonder fuel” and “fuel source of the future,” although basic research hadn’t even been concluded yet. After intensive development, Hydrogenious Technologies has just presented a potential successor to the carbazole legacy: dibenzyl toluene. On Jan. 29, 2016, the company based in Erlangen, Germany, brought its first hydrogen storage ...
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/ Amplats, Anglo, Areva H2Gen, Arlt, carbazole, catalyst, Cella, dibenzyl, Erlangen, Gemmer-Berkbilek, H2-Industries, Hydrogenious, LOHC, Marlotherm, platinum, toluene, Wasserscheid, worldwide
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Energy Saxony: Rohleder Replaces Franke

On March 1, 2016, Lukas Rohleder took over management of Energy Saxony. The 34-year-old replaced Robert Franke, who became head of the Office of Economic Development in Dresden, the capital of the German state of Saxony, on Oct. 1, 2015. Rohleder was last employed as the executive assistant for political communication at aireg, after he ...
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/ Dresden, Energy Saxony, Franke, Germany, Rohleder, sunfire, Wolfgang Schäuble
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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.