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Impact Clean Power to build gigafactory in Poland

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Poland-based Impact Clean Power Technology S.A. ICPT ), a manufacturer of battery systems for transportation, robotics and stationary energy storage in Europe, has begun construction of GigafactoryX. The investment will boost the company’s production capacity to up to 5 GWh per year, up from its current 1 MWh per day.

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Cummins fuel cell technology powers Coradia iLint fleet in Germany

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The Alstom Coradia iLint trains ( earlier post ) are outfitted with Cummins fuel cell systems and will run on the world’s first 100%-hydrogen train route in passenger operation. They are powered by Cummins fuel cell systems that convert hydrogen fuel into energy and turn existing, non-electrified infrastructure into zero-emission rail lines.

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Wroclaw, Poland orders 11 Mercedes-Benz eCitaro-G articulated electric buses

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Following Gdynia, the city of Wroclaw, Poland has ordered 11 fully electric Mercedes-Benz eCitaro G articulated buses. Due to the heat pump, the energy consumption is reduced compared with electrically operated side wall heaters with blowers, and the operating range increases in winter.

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GE Hitachi signs contract for the first commercial N American small modular reactor

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GE Hitachi Nuclear Energy (GEH), Ontario Power Generation (OPG), SNC-Lavalin and Aecon have signed a contract for the deployment of a BWRX-300 small modular reactor (SMR) at OPG’s Darlington New Nuclear Project site. Advanced nuclear technologies such as the BWRX-300 are a key pillar of GEH’s energy transition leadership.

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Duisburg orders 25 Solaris hydrogen buses

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The Urbino 12 will use 70 kW fuel cells, while the Urbino 18 will use 100 kW. Moreover, the ordered vehicles will be equipped with Solaris High Power batteries, providing additional electric energy storage. Solaris has so far delivered more than 3,000 buses with electric and hydrogen propulsion systems.

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EU investing €1.8B in 17 large-scale clean tech projects

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Grants will be disbursed from the Innovation Fund to help bring technologies to the market in energy-intensive industries, hydrogen, renewable energy, carbon capture and storage infrastructure, and manufacturing of key components for energy storage and renewables. A third project will capture the CO?

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7 series-hybrid Solaris buses to Z?bkowice ?l?skie; supercaps for energy storage

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skie, Poland by 31 July 2020. The hybrid buses will also feature supercapacitors that make it possible to store and then use recuperated energy. This will allow to cut down fuel consumption and pollutant emissions (compared to conventional drive vehicles). skie is in south-western Poland; population is 15,219 (2017).