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Vienna testing Solaris hydrogen bus

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Since the première of the hydrogen bus in June last year, Solaris has been awarded orders from the Netherlands, Germany and Italy for 57 buses in total. The Solaris Urbino 12 hydrogen buses use a set of fuel cells with a power of 70 kW. The first vehicles will make it to Bolzano, Cologne and Wuppertal by the end of this year.

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Connexxion orders 20 Solaris hydrogen buses for South Holland

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The operator Connexxion, providing transport services for South Holland province in The Netherlands, signed a contract for the delivery of 20 Solaris Urbino 12 hydrogen buses. South Holland (Dutch: Zuid-Holland) is the most populous province of The Netherlands, located in its western part, along the North Sea coast.

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RATP beginning tests of Solaris Urbino 12 hydrogen bus in Paris

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The bus is also fitted with a Solaris High Power battery acting as an additional electric power storage facility. Since the première of the hydrogen bus in June 2019, Solaris has been awarded orders from the Netherlands, Germany and Italy for 57 buses in total. The hydrogen is stored on the roof in five tanks.

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Corvus Energy’s marine lithium polymer battery pack used in Europe’s first hybrid tugboat

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Lithium polymer battery packs from Corvus Energy were recently installed in Europe’s first hybrid tugboat, the RotorTug RT Adriaan of KOTUG, an international maritime service provider headquartered in The Netherlands. This diesel-to-hybrid retrofit represents Europe’s first low emissions hybrid tugboat. Corvus uses Dow Kokam cells.

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Vattenfall contracts with BMW for up to 1,000 new 33 kWh Li-ion batteries this year for storage projects in wind farms

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The first energy storage from the BMW-i3 batteries is being built at the 122 MW onshore wind farm “Princess Alexia” near Amsterdam. megawatts (MW), it is Vattenfall’s first large storage project in the Netherlands. With a capacity of 3.2 Earlier post.). Earlier post.). Earlier post , earlier post.).

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Global investment in renewable power reached $270.2B in 2014, ~17% up from 2013; biofuel investment fell 8% to 10-year low

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There were seven billion-dollar-plus financings of offshore wind projects, boosting the investment totals for the Netherlands, the UK and Germany. The report concentrates on renewable power and fuels and does not substantively address technologies such as smart grid, electric vehicles and power storage.

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Smart Charging Electric Vehicles and the Flexibility Market

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The utility must buy power from the general capacity market at higher rates and passes along the expense. As power storage technologies catch up with today’s requirements, the entire power infrastructure will be able to leverage even more opportunities in the flexibility market when it comes to the EV charging environment.

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