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Stanford’s GCEP awards $10.5M for research on renewable energy; solar cells, batteries, renewable fuels and bioenergy

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million for seven research projects designed to advance a broad range of renewable energy technologies, including solar cells, batteries, renewable fuels and bioenergy. The mineral perovskite is a promising, low-cost material for enhancing the efficiency of silicon solar cells. efficiency, low-cost silicon solar cells.

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Tesla powers Eneco’s largest battery project

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Eneco, an energy producer in the Netherlands, is relying on Tesla to power its biggest battery project to date, which will be used to “more efficiently balance Belgium’s electricity grid” and is expected to be operational in 2024. Eneco is jointly owned by Mitsubishi Corp.

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First Toyota Mirai in Norway delivered to Uno-X Hydrogen

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Following the United Kingdom, Denmark, Germany and Belgium, Norway is the 5 th European country to start selling the fuel cell sedan. The first of the 20 planned stations will use the surplus solar energy produced from the solar panels on the roof of the neighboring energy-positive office building. Earlier post.).

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UTC Power Attains 5,000-Hour Durability Milestone With Transit Bus Fuel Cell System

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company, announced that one of its latest generation PureMotion Model 120 fuel cell powerplants for hybrid-electric transit buses has surpassed 5,000 operating hours in real-world service with its original cell stacks and no cell replacements. It is recognized by the industry as a key challenge in commercializing fuel cell vehicles worldwide.

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Number of electric buses in Europe has increased from around 200 to 2,200 in 5 years

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Since 2005, Van Hool has built 130 hydrogen fuel cell buses. Recently, the first LNG-fueled coaches were delivered to a Spanish carrier. As a result, fuel consumption and emissions are up to 40% lower than with a conventional Euro 6 diesel bus. 47% of the buses built by Solaris are powered by an alternative propulsion system.

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Scenario study suggests increased vehicle electrification in Europe increases demand for gas in power sector; limited ability for power-to-gas

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The study is based on a set of scenarios for 2050 of electrification in five European countries: Austria (AT), Belgium (BE), France (FR), Germany (DE) and the Netherlands (NL). The gradual introduction of renewable gases has not been fully taken into account.

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Coulomb Racks Up Series of Charging Infrastructure Wins

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The City of Amsterdam plans to deploy 200 charging stations before 2012, and expects the charging stations to fuel 10,000 electric cars in 2015. The Katholieke High School of Limburg, Belgium (KHLim) will deploy ChargePoint Networked Charging stations as part of the first European Clean Mobility Center in Belgium.

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