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Extremely Efficient Energy Production

Extremely Efficient Energy Production

by | Mar 11, 2019 | Germany

IBZ spokesperson Timm Kehler

Early into the Fuel Cell Innovation Forum, organized by the BDH and Zukunft Erdgas, both spokesmen for the Fuel Cell Initiative, or IBZ for short, were visibly tense, seemingly worried that the government might drop its support for residential fuel cells. But after Thomas Bareiß, who works at the German economy ministry, told those gathered on Oct. 10, 2018, in Berlin the heaters had been short-listed for incentives in 2019, you could hear them breathe a sigh a relief.

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A Site Visit to SOLIDpower in Heinsberg

A Site Visit to SOLIDpower in Heinsberg

by | Mar 11, 2019 | Germany

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Andreas Ballhausen flanked by the old and new generation of BlueGen devices.

Twelve years after the first BlueGen system came to market, SOLIDpower will launch the next generation of its fuel cell units, called BG-15, in spring. On Nov. 21, 2018, it celebrated the new product announcement by taking partners, employees, the press and many other invited guests on a tour of its manufacturing plant in Heinsberg, Germany.

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Fuel Cells at Home: Looking for Options

Fuel Cells at Home: Looking for Options

by | Mar 11, 2019 | Germany

What do you do when your heating system stops working? Of course, you call the company that installed it. And what if they tell you that repairing your 22-year-old gas boiler isn’t worth it anymore? Which system is affordable yet state of the art? Do you want a condensing boiler or rather a home fuel cell? Where can you get the information you need? Who can you talk to? H2-international’s Editor-in-Chief Sven Geitmann went looking for answers and this is his story of what happened.

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Power-to-Gas for Non-Electrified Areas

Power-to-Gas for Non-Electrified Areas

by | Mar 11, 2019 | Germany

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Professor Michael Sterner

A nightmare scenario is making the rounds in the gas sector: All of Germany comes to rely on electric power alone, abandoning the pipeline system. It is a future that can easily be dismissed as an unlikely horror story but one that gas companies are trying to prevent at all costs. It is why an industry that has so far focused on traditional means of heat production is slowly warming to power-to-gas and energy systems integration and why the DVGW gave an update on the market by presenting a new study, including policy recommendations, last September.

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Wind Power Boosts Hydrogen Transportation

Wind Power Boosts Hydrogen Transportation

by | Mar 11, 2019 | Germany

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Hydrogenics electrolyzer in the Covestro industrial area, © Niels H. Petersen

Thanks to NEW 4.0, the German state of Schleswig-Holstein is rapidly turning into a showcase for the energy market transformation in the country. The abbreviation stands for a growing innovation alliance, formed on the threshold of the fourth industrial revolution, which intends to create a smart and interconnected energy system. One of the many NEW 4.0 projects is Wind to Gas Energy’s hydrogen venture in Brunsbüttel.

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