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July 4, 2012

Plug Power wins fuel cell commercialisation award 7th June 2012

Plug Power won the Canadian Hydrogen and Fuel Cell Association (CHFCA) commercialisation award at the 2012 World Hydrogen Energy Conference, in Toronto, Ontario.

The award recognises companies' efforts in the commercialisation and manufacturing of hydrogen and fuel cell products.

Plug Power won the Canadian Hydrogen and Fuel Cell Association's (CHFCA) commercialisation award at the 2012 World Hydrogen Energy Conference, in Toronto, Ontario.

The award recognises companies' efforts in the commercialisation and manufacturing of hydrogen and fuel cell products.

In 2011, Plug Power received orders for 2,503 GenDrive fuel cell units, nearly five times as many orders received in 2010.

It now has over 2,200 GenDrive fuel cells deployed at customer sites including Walmart, P&G and Coca-Cola.

The company recently launched HyPulsion, a joint venture with an Air Liquide subsidiary, to develop the European market for fuel cell-powered forklift trucks.

"GenDrive is deployed at over 25 customer sites across North America and the momentum continues to build here and in Europe."

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June 7, 2012

Ballard to test FC backup power system in China

The operational trial plan is expected to lead to commercial deployments of Ballard's products in the network of Chinese telecom giant China Mobile.

May 23, 2012

FuelCell Energy announces European market development

US-based FuelCell Energy announced that its German subsidiary FuelCell Energy Solutions acquired key assets from MTU Friedrichshafen.

May 16, 2012

Joint venture announced to develop European market for FC forklifts

Air Liquide and Plug Power have agreed to join forces to launch a range of FC products for forklift trucks.

April 16, 2012

Panasonic to launch fuel cell centre in Wales

The upcoming research and development centre in Cardiff is part of a £2 million investment in this technology from the Japanese electronics leader.

April 2, 2012

Success for Hydrogenics in Swiss FC vehicle project

The company has been part of a pilot project to test the capabilities of hydrogen powered vehicles for waste management.

February 21, 2012

ITM Power and Marks & Spencer sign pilot agreement for materials handling trial

The two companies have signed a pilot agreement to undertake the UK’s first fuel cell materials handling trial with on-site hydrogen production.

February 13, 2012

Coca-Cola chooses FC solution

Coca-Cola has unveiled its newly-acquired fleet of fuel cell forklifts, which will help the company reduce GHG emissions at its facility of San Leandro, California.

February 9, 2012

Ballard signs MOU with WEG Industries to provide fuel cells for clean energy in Brazil

Ballard Power Systems announced the signature of a non-binding Memorandum of Understanding with WEG Industries to collaborate on product and market development of clean energy fuel cell products.

February 6, 2012

Solvay presents Nedstack's fuel cell

On February 6th, Solvay presented to the press the results of the Nedstack's fuel cell which was installed in September 2011.

February 4, 2012

ITM annunces launch of new Megawatt Scale plant

The energy storage plant will be presented at the Hannover Messe on 23-27 April.

January 30, 2012

Hydrogen fuel cell boat unveiled in Turkey

The Istanbul Technical University in Turkey has unveiled a hydrogen fuel cell boat, developed over four years with funding from several organizations, including the UN Industrial Development Organization (UNIDO) and the Istanbul Metropolitan Municipality.

December 21, 2011

Researchers discover a way to significantly reduce the production costs of fuel cells

Researchers at Aalto University in Finland have developed a new and significantly cheaper method of manufacturing fuel cells.

December 12, 2011

Vattenfall converts wind energy to hydrogen gas

Vattenfall is participating in a unique project that allows wind energy to be stored and converted to hydrogen gas.

September 6, 2011

Peak management demand with Ballard's CLEARgen

The 1MW fuel cell system has started operations at FirstEnergy Corp.’s premises in Ohio.

July 27, 2011

Nedstack installs the world's largest fuel cell in chlorine plant in Antwerp

Thanks to a PEM fuel cell plant, Solvay's chlorine plant in Antwerp will now be powered by clean electricity.

July 11, 2011

Nedstack fuel cells reach 10.000 hours of operation

Nedstack has successfully completed 10.000 hours of operation with its PEM fuel cell stack running at the AkzoNobel’s chlor-alkali plant in the Netherlands.

June 1, 2011

Ballard receives Merit Review Award

The US Department of Energy has rewarded Ballard Power for significantly reducing the costs of its FC products through the optimization of the manufacturing of the gas diffusion layer (GDL).

April 18, 2011

ITM achieves CE certifications, concludes first sale of HFuel©

Two products from ITM Power have obtained the go-ahead and are rapidly moving toward commercialization. The HFlame and the HBox, respectively an alkaline and a PEM electrolyzer, were in fact certified as safe products satisfying the EU standards.

April 18, 2011

Ceres obtains CE safety approval for innovative CHP unit

Ceres Power recently announced to have successfully completed a series of trials required for the release of the CE safety approval for a CHP unit to be deployed in British households.

March 11, 2011

Intelligent Energy and Suzuki obtain Whole Vehicle Type Approval for their fuel cell scooter

Intelligent Energy, the global clean power systems company, and Suzuki Motor Corporation announced that the jointly developed Suzuki Burgman Fuel Cell Scooter has obtained a Whole Vehicle Type Approval (WVTA), meaning that the vehicle and its components are approved for production and sale within Europe. This is the first time any fuel cell vehicle has achieved this level of certification.

February 7, 2011

Fuel Cells hit the news at CES 2011 and Golden Globes

Fuel cell technologies made the news in January in the IT and Telecommunication arena. A fuel cell powered tablet PC was presented during the CES 2011, the world largest consumer technology conference while a fuel cell system provided clean, quiet and off grid power during the Golden Globes 2011 wawrd ceremony.

January 28, 2011

IPHE and DOE published the Hydrogen and Fuel Cell global 2010 commercialisation development update

The International Partnership for Hydrogen and Fuel Cells in the Economy (IPHE) recently published its 2010 Hydrogen and Fuel Cell Global Commercialisation Development Update, with the support of the US with support from the U.S. Department of Energy's (DOE) Fuel Cell Technologies Program.

January 18, 2011

The Hydrogen Office opens in Scotland

The Scottish Hydrogen Office was officially opened by the by First Minister Alex Salmond on 18 January. The hydrogen office located in Fife’s Energy Park is a state of the art demonstration and research facility, powered by hydrogen fuel cell technology and representing an investment of £ 4.7 million.

January 3, 2011

Ballard reaches a milestone for the commercialisation of fuel cell technology

Ballard, a world leader in the field of fuel cell technology and a core member of FuelCellEurope, announced in December that it has reached a milestone in the commercialisation of fuel cell technology, with the production of its one-millionth Membrane Electrode Assembly (MEA)

January 3, 2011

Ceres Power Fuel cell Combined Heat and Power (CHP) system receives CE approval

Ceres Power, a leading fuel cell company announced end of December that it has obtained a ‘CE’ safety approval for its fuel cell Combined Heat and Power system. This fuel cell CHP product is to be installed and operated in occupied homes as part of the company’s field trials under the residential CHP programme with British Gas.

November 8, 2010

Fuel Cell Hydrogen Powered Vehicles are a cornerstone for Europe 2050 de-carbonized transport system

A fact-based analysis published in November on “A portfolio of power-trains for Europe” assessed the role and potentials of battery electric vehicles, plug-in hybrid and fuel cells hydrogen electric vehicles technologies in addressing the European 2050’s challenge to reduce by 80% the Green House Gas (GHG) Emission.

October 22, 2010

ITM Power realizes Hydrogen on-site trials with leading public and private organisations

The UK successful company ITM a leading company in hydrogen systems, notably electrolysers, for both niche and mass market applications, announced recently the conduction of Hydrogen on-site trials (HOST) for its new high-pressure hydrogen refueling system , HFuel.

September 30, 2010

The business case for fuel cells: rising market perspectives and early adopters.

Promising market opportunities for fuel cells technologies exist already today and will increase substantially tomorrow, as recently demonstrated in two US published reports on market perspectives. This news highlights the change of angle that is currently occurring in the fuel cell industry, switching from an R&D perspective to a commercial vision. On the path towards extended market shares, the adoption of this clean, efficient and reliable technology by key companies, acting as early adopters, will be crucial to take the next steps.

September 17, 2010

CENEX supports the UK hydrogen infrastructure roll-out

Cenex, the UK’s Centre of Excellence for low carbon vehicle technologies announced its support for a major hydrogen infrastructure roll-out project in preparation for the mass deployment of hydrogen fuel cell vehicles expected to start in 2015: the Bristol Accord UK HyNet project.

September 17, 2010

Hyundai-Kia Motos targets 2012 for the commercialization of its fuel cells hydrogen electric vehicle

The South-Korean company announced early September its ambition to commercialise a fuel cell hydrogen electric vehicle by 2012, three years before the 2015 target set by most of the other competitors.

July 1, 2010

French innovative firm McPhy is securing € 13.7 M funding

McPhy Energy, active in the solid storage of hydrogen in the form of magnesium hydrides, has recently announced the investments of € 13.7 M from multiple investors, to support the deployment of the company.

June 14, 2010

Fuel Cells UK Manifesto to accelerate the commercialisation of fuel cells & hydrogen

The UK industry association committed to accelerate the development and commercialisation of fuel cells published a manifesto, calling the newly appointed Government to adopt new measures to support the fuel cell and hydrogen sector in the UK so that it can play its role in delivering low carbon jobs together with a range of other policy benefits.

June 11, 2010

State of the States: Fuel Cells in America

Fuel Cells 2000 recently published a new report, “State of the States: Fuel Cells in America,” providing a snapshot of fuel cell and hydrogen activity in the 50 states and District of Columbia.

June 10, 2010

Zero Emissions Fuel Cell Hybrid taxi unveiled in London!

Famous London's Taxi are now running on a hydrogen fuel cell system hybridised system, making the Black cabs go green! Intelligent Energy, Lotus Engineering, LTI Vehicles and TRW Conekt, with funding from the UK Government’s Technology Strategy Board, today unveiled a full performance, zero-emissions Fuel Cell Hybrid London taxi.

March 29, 2010

Japan targets Europe for its residential fuel cells

According to the BBC, Japan plans to supply the UK and Germany with residential fuel cells, following the success of a half-price subsidy for CO2-busting fuel cell heat and energy generators.

October 12, 2009

Fuel cells demonstrate clean, efficient power generation fuelled with biogas from waste

Patrick Maio, executive Director of FuelCellEurope and Patrick Trezona, senior advisor of FuelCellEurope discuss in the International Sustainable Energy Review (Issue 3- September 2009) the potential of fuel cells for waste to energy applications.

September 10, 2009

A major milestone passed in Germany for the Hydrogen refuelling and fuel cells vehicles

09-09-2009- Germany
Two major announcements were made lately in Germany marking a crucial step towards the serial production of clean and efficient fuel cell vehicles.
Indeed, major automotive manufacturers and leading industrial companies have expressed their strong commitment to the deployment of fuel cells vehicles in Germany, along with the appropriate Hydrogen Infrastructure.

June 1, 2009

Fuel Cells deployment in the Postal services- Interview of Martin Blake, Royal Mail in the Universal Postal Union(UPU) Sustainable Development Newsletter

Martin Blake, Royal Mail Group's Head of Sustainability and Board Member of FuelCellEurope recently gave an interview to the Sustainable Newsletter published by the Universal Postal Union.