In a piece of good news to start off the year, researchers from Ulsan National Institute of Science and Technology in South Korea and Helmholtz-Zentrum Berlin in Germany have announced an efficiency breakthrough for their ‘artificial leaf’ project, which is really more like artificial seaweed. The research, published in Nature Communications, looks at mimicking aquatic…

The H2FC SUPERGEN had its fourth Research Conference in Belfast, UK, on 12-14th Dec 2016. We thank all the 130 delegates who attended and presented their research to the community. With participants joining the UK H2FC community from fourteen other countries, our delegates ranged from PhD students to senior academics working in te filed and some delegates…

Consultation closes Monday 30th January 2017 Contract starts 20th February 2017 Contract closes 30th June 2017 BEIS is looking for bidders to fill an open contract, to improve its modelling capability in the field of hydrogen infrastructure modelling. In order to do so will require: An assessment of existing evidence for the hydrogen supply chain…

The UK Committee on Climate Change (CCC) is the British parliament’s independent carbon advisory body, and its reccommendations carry significant weight among policymakers. It is interesting, then, that the CCC’s latest report, Next Steps for UK Heat Policy, puts hydrogen for heat squarely on the policy agenda. The report is blunt that heating is a…

The 13th International Hydrogen and Fuel Cell Conference will be taking place on the 14th March 2017, at the National Exhibition Centre in Birmingham. The theme will be ‘Hydrogen & Fuel Cells into the mainstream’, and earlybird prices will be available until 14th December. Anybody interested in sponsoring or exhibiting at the 2017 event should…

The modern internal combustion engine was created in the 1870s, but it wasn’t until the Model-T Ford began production in 1908 that automobiles reached the mass market. Similarly, fuel cells have been around since 1966, when General Motors unveiled the ‘electrovan’ – a puttering machine which took thirty seconds to go from 0-to-60 mph. But…

ITM Power yesterday held a ribbon-cutting for its third public-access refuelling station, in the London borough of Rainham between London City Airport and the M25. The station will manufactures its own hydrogen, through solar power drawn from the nearby Centre of Engineering Manufacturing Excellence. How much capacity the station would have to meet growing demand…

The Fuel Cells and Hydrogen Joint Undertaking, a public-private partnership supporting hydrogen technologies in Europe, has moved into its second phase. The current aim of the program is to draw together as many regional and civic authorities as possible, to lay the groundwork for an international system of hydrogen technologies. Under the terms of this…