ScienceAlert

Hydrogen fuel cells - an ultra-clean energy source - offer a lot of potential for powering the transportation of the future, but there are significant hurdles to overcome: price, size, and supply, to name just three. Now UK budget airline EasyJet thinks it might have found a way to incorporate hydrogen fuel cells into its planes in a way that's safe and cost-effective. 

AZoCleantech

Researchers from the USC Loker Hydrocarbon Research Institute have succeeded in generating fuel from thin air. This is the first time that researchers have directly transformed carbon dioxide, present in the air, into methanol. This conversion took place at a relatively low temperature. 

Business Wire (press release)

LONDON--(BUSINESS WIRE)--The global fuel cell market in the automotive industry is set to grow at a rapid CAGR of over 45% (in terms of unit shipments) through 2019, according to Technavio's latest report. In this report, Technavio covers the market outlook and growth prospects of global fuel cell market in the automotive Industry for 2015-2019. The market size has been calculated based on the revenue generated from the global units and MW shipments of fuel cells in the automotive industry. 

Gasworld

AFC Energy, an industrial fuel cell power company, has successfully delivered gross electrical output in excess of 200kW at its KORE fuel cell power plant in Stade, Germany. The UK-based company's KORE system converts hydrogen (H2) into 'clean' electricity, for large-scale use in industrial applications. In the trial, which concluded on 31st January, 200kW of power was produced from the fuel cell system and it was the first time all three tiers of the KORE fuel cell system operated in parallel with each other to successfully dispatch power into the German power grid.

Proactive Investors UK

Fuel cell developer Ceres Power (LON:CWR) has signed an evaluation agreement for its proprietary technology with another large manufacturing group. Under this new agreement Ceres will supply a complete system for testing by the (unnamed) potential customer. If successful, the two will jointly develop a multi kW electricity generation system. The fuel cell uses a perforated sheet of steel that has layers of ceramic ink printed on to it. The ceramic layer coverts fuel directly to electricity and can be used with different fuel types such as natural gas or hydrogen.

Intelligent Energy

Anglo American Platinum (Amplats), one of the largest platinum miners in the world, has announced that it will be investing $4 million to help reduce the overall cost of fuel cell vehicles. These vehicles are equipped with hydrogen fuel cells, which generate electrical power through the consumption of hydrogen. While these energy systems are considered efficient and a valuable solution for vehicles, they are quite expensive.

ACHR NEWS

EDISON, N.J. - Fuji Electric Co. Ltd. announced that its European subsidiary, Fuji Electric Europe GmbH, has completed an agreement to acquire 70 percent of the shares of N2telligence, a German fuel cell company headquartered in Wismar, Germany, best known for holding the exclusive license for the patent on a fire prevention system using exhaust air from fuel cells. Fuji Electric said the acquisition is part of its plan to expand its business in the areas of clean and renewable energy, including geothermal, hydro, solar photovoltaic (PV), and fuel cells.

Telecom Lead

Essential Energy has delivered over 10MWh of clean power to telecom towers in India. The clean energy project, which will run for ten years, saved more than 55 tons of CO2 emissions. Essential Energy, the distributed power and generation company, is a wholly-owned subsidiary of UK listed Intelligent Energy Holdings. The company generated clean power from the initial selected fuel cells operating in the field since the Rs 12,000 crore deal with telecom infrastructure vendor GTL to provide power to telecom towers, was announced on 1 October 2015.

Intelligent Energy

This morning we were delighted to welcome Energy and Climate Change Secretary Rt Hon Amber Rudd MP, to our headquarters in Loughborough to speak with some of our engineers and innovators. Ms Rudd was greeted at Loughborough Train Station by an Intelligent Energy fuel-cell powered black cab and given a tour of our offices, providing a behind the scenes viewing of our technology portfolio and latest examples of embedded hydrogen fuel cells for smartphones and laptops.