In the latest edition of Building Services News (p.60-61) , Tom Houghton gives a viewpoint on the development of fuel cells for CHP applications in the commercial sector. Fuel cells can already offer improvements to air quality in the built environment and can increase efficiency across both power production and heat under the right conditions. […]
The f-cell Impulse Summit for Hydrogen and Fuel Cells is in Stuttgart, 10-11 September. E4tech’s Franz Lehner will be presenting an ‘outside perspective on China’, put together from our extensive engagement with China’s fuel cell and hydrogen industry. As in photovoltaics and battery electric vehicles, China could bring the scale to push fuel cells to […]
The Rail Industry Decarbonisation Task Force, assisted by the Rail Safety and Standards Board , released its final report to the Rail Minister on 20 July setting out its proposed approach to decarbonising the UK’s railways. The report, commissioned in 2018 by the then Minister Jo Johnson, sets out how the rail industry can contribute […]
David has been in Johannesburg and Cape Town speaking at a fuel cell conference organised by Nedbank CIB Research. Interest in fuel cells in S Africa is high, with Government support growing across all Departments, particularly looking at adding value to S Africa’s platinum industry. Interviewed on CNBC Africa, David and Conduit Ventures CEO John […]
Old solutions go overboard, big changes needed Today the UK Department for Transport published the Clean Maritime Plan describing the ambition to drastically reduce emissions of both greenhouse gases and air pollutants from the shipping sector and to develop strong UK industries to deliver this. The scale of the challenge is huge and the analysis […]
Road transport’s emissions challenges are – on the face of it – readily solvable by means of electric drive. Whether it is tailpipe pollutants or greenhouse gases, green electricity and batteries or hydrogen and fuel cells offer a means to clean up vehicles. However, that is much more easily said than done and the current […]
The World Hydrogen Technologies Convention was opened in Japan on 3rd June by two Government ministers and the Governor of Tokyo. E4tech Director David Hart is in Tokyo all week, presenting E4tech work on the fuel cell industry , on the electrolyser industry and on supply and value chains.
What are the opportunities for bio-based raw materials in the European chemical industry? The EU project RoadToBio publishes a roadmap to deliver opportunities to replace fossil products by bio-based products that have the same or superior functionality. The RoadToBio project identified opportunities for bio-based platform chemicals and dedicated chemicals based on likely demand drivers […]
The f-cell+HFC Impulse Summit is in Vancouver, 22-23 May. E4tech’s David Hart will be presenting an ‘outside perspective on China’, put together from our extensive engagement with China’s fuel cell and hydrogen industry. While China could play a pivotal role in commercialising fuel cells, the picture is fuzzy and changes rapidly. Come and get it […]
Today the UK’s Committee on Climate Change (CCC) released their much anticipated report on achieving net zero emissions. The CCC recommends that the UK should adopt a net-zero greenhouse gas emissions target for 2050, to deliver on the UK’s Paris Agreement commitment. Whilst CCC expect this target to be achievable with technologies that are known […]
