July 19, 2010

The EU commissioner for research and innovation, Máire Geoghegan-Quinn, announced on 19th July, the creation of a fund doted with nearly €6.4 billion to invest in research and development, as part of EU flagship initiative "Innovative Union" within the 2020 Strategy.

June 18, 2010

The call for proposals 2010 of the Fuel Cells and Hydrogen Joint Undertaking has been published on the 18th June 2010 with a global budget of 89.1 € Millions & 25 topics.

June 3, 2010

The first European Industrial Initiatives of the Strategic Energy Technology Plan (SET Plan) were launched on 3 June 2010 in Madrid. It concerns the European Industrial Initiatives for Wind, Solar, Electricity Grids and Carbon Capture & Storage.

May 25, 2010

In its conclusions on the EU Clean and Energy Efficient Vehicles Strategy, the EU Competitiveness Council confirmed that “hydrogen vehicles remain a valid ultra-low-carbon mobility option in the medium term perspective, as affordability of the car and of the fuel is achieved".

May 7, 2010

The European Commission has launched early May a public consultation on the future European Energy Strategy to get stakeholders opinions in view of adopting the new strategy in March 2011.

April 2, 2010

UK Members of the Parliament are calling the government for more support to hydrogen fuel cell powered vehicles in a report published last week by the cross-party Energy and Climate Change Select Committee on "Low carbon technologies in a green economy”.

March 29, 2010

The London Hydrogen Action Plan was released on the 26th of March, unveiling the London "Hydrogen network" to help accelerate the wider use of this zero-polluting, zero-carbon energy in the capital by 2012.

February 15, 2010

Fuel Cell & Hydrogen stakeholders have joined forces early February to explain the role of hydrogen and fuel cell vehicles in electric transport, in light of the European Union’s current debates for the market development of electric vehicles.

January 22, 2010

The Fuel Cell and Hydrogen Joint Undertaking (FCH JU) just published the results of the first JTI Calls launched in 2008 and negotiated during 2009. 16 projects were approved, covering all the different applications areas.

October 21, 2009

Fuel cell technology can deliver clean, efficient and abundant energy for Europe whilst creating economic growth and local employment, at the speed of funding for SET Plan.

October 8, 2009

Long-awaited funding proposals for the EU's Strategic Energy Technology Plan (SET Plan) have just been unveiled by the European Commission, calling for a shift of money towards supporting the transition to a low-carbon economy in the next EU budget. The energy research budget should be increased to €50 billion over the next ten years. This would require yearly flows from both the public and private sectors to jump from their current €3bn to €8bn, it calculated.

September 30, 2009

The 2009 Calls for proposals of the Fuel Cells and Hydrogen Joint Undertaking (JTI) is closing very soon.
Members of FuelCellEurope interested in participating to the call should finalise and submit on time their proposals.

The deadline is on 15th October 2009 at 17.00h (Brussels time)

September 11, 2009

Energy Secretary Steven Chu will no longer seek to kill Energy Department research and development of hydrogen-powered cars, now that the United State Congress has reinstated funding for fuel cells in transport application