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Many thanks for posting jabber. Much appreciated. As an aside regarding the earlier comment about the 'loss making Peel Holdings' - they made a net �36m profit in 2017.

Hi Piltick. I assume from the lack of an update that there has been no tangible argument put forward to back up the claim being made that afc fuel cells are central to phe's being. Thank you.

Hi BB. That being the case, no update on the chinese fuel cell competition, it rather calls into question other claims. Thank you for clarifying that there has not been a tangible response. It sounds similar to the claim made on high temperature gasification competititors of which none have been identified within the same space.

Hi Piltick. Do let us know if you get a tangible response to the comment about the afc fuel cell being central to phe's being. That is after all quite a statement to make. Thank you

Hi BB do let us know if he gets back to you with anything tangible. Thank you

Good work balman. Many thanks.

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I am liking the 700,000 & 890,000 buys on 15/1

Nice to see 2 * 320,000 buys yesterday. Perhaps the reason for the drop.

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Eleven companies have joined forces and signed an agreement to form a new corporation in the spring of 2018 aimed at the full-fledged development of hydrogen (H2) recharging stations for fuel cell vehicles in Japan. Driven mainly by Toyota Motor Corporation, Nissan Motor Co Ltd., Honda Motor Co Ltd., JXTG Nippon Oil & Energy Corporation, Idemitsu Kosan Co Ltd., Iwatani Corporation, Tokyo Gas Co Ltd., Toho Gas Co Ltd., Air Liquide Japan Ltd., Toyota Tsusho Corporation and Development Bank of Japan, the new company will be established to accelerate Japan’s H2 initiative. According to the ‘Strategic Road Map for Hydrogen and Fuel Cells’, released by a Council for a Strategy for Hydrogen and Fuel Cells, an industry body organised by the Ministry of Economy, Trade and Industry (METI) of Japan, in the initial phase of promoting fuel cell vehicles powered by H2, the target is 160 stations and 40,000 fuel cell vehicles by 2020. The objective of the new company is to enhance the collaboration among infrastructure developers, automakers, and financial institutions in order to simultaneously accelerate and scale up Japan’s deployment of HRS and fuel cell vehicles. Strategic deployment of H2 recharging stations The newly-formed company will aim to complete its mission in 10 years. During the first four years in Phase 1, it intends to target the construction of 80 new stations. To achieve this target, new member companies, extending beyond the current member companies, will be invited to participate. The new company will, while taking into account subsidies from the national government and initiatives of local governments, develop its own original ‘Hydrogen Recharging Station Deployment Plan’, in order to create an environment in which many users can enjoy driving fuel cell vehicles in Japan.

A decisive project in the deployment of the Power-to-Gas process in France, one of McPhy’s key markets; Ramping up of McPhy: 13.5 MWe of electrolysis in Power-to-Gas, with a potential for 17,000 km of clean mobility / day; first key references on the new carbon-free hydrogen market for industry. Paris, December 19, 2017 – McPhy (Euronext Paris Compartment C: MCPHY, FR0011742329), specialist in hydrogen production, storage and distribution equipment, has participated in the laying of the first stone of the “Jupiter 1000” demonstrator, France’s first Power-to-Gas demonstrator connected to the natural gas transportation network, in Fos-sur-Mer. Pascal Mauberger, Chairman and Chief Executive Officer of McPhy, says “We are very pleased to be able to provide our expertise in the field of electrolysis to the Jupiter 1000 project, a unique project in France involving all of the Power-to-Gas value chain’s players and enabling the wide-scale deployment of this innovative technology. Key components of the demonstrator, our PEM and alkaline electrolyzers will enable surplus green electricity to be recycled in the form of hydrogen. For the first time, these two technologies will be compared on an industrial scale and under the same usage conditions, which represents a real breakthrough for our industry. Lastly, this project clearly illustrates McPhy’s ramping up this year. Indeed, we have deployed numerous projects on our key mobility, Power-to-Gas and industry markets. Our pioneering solutions at the forefront of innovation meet the colossal energy storage needs resulting from the threat of climate change and the necessary transition to carbon-free energy.” Power-to-Gas: decompartmentalize electricity and gas networks to make the energy transition a success The first Power-to-Gas project connected to the French gas transportation network, baptized “Jupiter 1000”, is being built in Fos-sur-Mer. This 1 MW demonstrator will enable the transition from the concept phase to an industrial tool. The purpose of this unique French project is to test the technical and economic viability of Power-to-Gas, by detecting and dealing with any technical, economic or regulatory difficulties, in order to reduce long-term investment and operating costs, and allow the deployment of a new wide-scale renewable gas production segment.

Tesla truck will need energy of 4,000 homes to recharge, research claims which raises questions about viability of quick charging time for new vehicle One of Europe�s leading energy consultancies has estimated that Tesla�s electric haulage truck will require the same energy as up to 4,000 homes to recharge, calculations that raise questions over the project�s viability. The US electric carmaker unveiled a battery-powered lorry earlier this month, promising haulage drivers they could add 400 miles of charge in as little as 30 minutes using a new �megacharger� to be made by the company. John Feddersen, chief executive of Aurora Energy Research, a consultancy set up in 2013 by a group of Oxford university professors, said the power required for the megacharger to fill a battery in that amount of time would be 1,600 kilowatts. That is the equivalent of providing 3,000-4,000 �average� houses, he told a London conference last week, ten times as powerful as Tesla�s current network of �superchargers� for its electric cars. Tesla declined to comment on the calculations. Elon Musk, Tesla�s chief executive, has previously said the megachargers would be solar-powered but the company has not confirmed whether they will also have a grid connection for when it is not sunny. Many of Tesla�s current superchargers are powered in part by renewable energy. The company is also experimenting with storage batteries to ease demands on the grid. Tesla has not yet said when it will begin installing its megachargers but says it will begin deliveries of the truck in 2019. Mr Feddersen used the example of the Tesla truck to highlight the need for greater debate around how grid infrastructure will need to be adapted to meet demand for electric vehicles. �There are smart and dumb ways to incorporate this level of capacity requirement into the system, but either way, fully electrified road transport will need a large amount of new infrastructure,� he told the Financial Times. Other experts in battery technology have claimed that charging a truck in half an hour would require technology exceeding anything available. �The fastest chargers today can support up to around 450kW charging, so it�s not clear yet how Tesla will achieve their desired charging speeds,� said Colin McKerracher, head of advanced transport at Bloomberg New Energy Finance, a consultancy. �One option may be to segment the battery somehow and actually charge different segments simultaneously. This adds additional costs and we haven't seen anything like that done at anywhere near this power output.� National Grid, which oversees Britain�s electricity system, has suggested that in the most extreme scenario, electric vehicles could create as much as 18 gigawatts of additional demand for power at peak times in the UK by 2050. This is the equivalent cap

Tesla truck will need energy of 4,000 homes to recharge, research claims which raises questions about viability of quick charging time for new vehicle One of Europe�s leading energy consultancies has estimated that Tesla�s electric haulage truck will require the same energy as up to 4,000 homes to recharge, calculations that raise questions over the project�s viability. The US electric carmaker unveiled a battery-powered lorry earlier this month, promising haulage drivers they could add 400 miles of charge in as little as 30 minutes using a new �megacharger� to be made by the company. John Feddersen, chief executive of Aurora Energy Research, a consultancy set up in 2013 by a group of Oxford university professors, said the power required for the megacharger to fill a battery in that amount of time would be 1,600 kilowatts. That is the equivalent of providing 3,000-4,000 �average� houses, he told a London conference last week, ten times as powerful as Tesla�s current network of �superchargers� for its electric cars. Tesla declined to comment on the calculations. Elon Musk, Tesla�s chief executive, has previously said the megachargers would be solar-powered but the company has not confirmed whether they will also have a grid connection for when it is not sunny. Many of Tesla�s current superchargers are powered in part by renewable energy. The company is also experimenting with storage batteries to ease demands on the grid. Tesla has not yet said when it will begin installing its megachargers but says it will begin deliveries of the truck in 2019. Mr Feddersen used the example of the Tesla truck to highlight the need for greater debate around how grid infrastructure will need to be adapted to meet demand for electric vehicles. �There are smart and dumb ways to incorporate this level of capacity requirement into the system, but either way, fully electrified road transport will need a large amount of new infrastructure,� he told the Financial Times. Other experts in battery technology have claimed that charging a truck in half an hour would require technology exceeding anything available. �The fastest chargers today can support up to around 450kW charging, so it�s not clear yet how Tesla will achieve their desired charging speeds,� said Colin McKerracher, head of advanced transport at Bloomberg New Energy Finance, a consultancy. �One option may be to segment the battery somehow and actually charge different segments simultaneously. This adds additional costs and we haven't seen anything like that done at anywhere near this power output.� National Grid, which oversees Britain�s electricity system, has suggested that in the most extreme scenario, electric vehicles could create as much as 18 gigawatts of additional demand for power at peak times in the UK by 2050. This is the equivalent cap

Part 2 This is the equivalent capacity of nearly six nuclear power stations on the scale of the Hinkley Point project under construction in the south-west of England. Industry experts believe strains on the system could be reduced by using �smart chargers� that only re-boot vehicle batteries when the grid is able to cope, rather than at peak times, such as after work.

Tesla truck will need energy of 4,000 homes to recharge, research claims which raises questions about viability of quick charging time for new vehicle One of Europe�s leading energy consultancies has estimated that Tesla�s electric haulage truck will require the same energy as up to 4,000 homes to recharge, calculations that raise questions over the project�s viability. The US electric carmaker unveiled a battery-powered lorry earlier this month, promising haulage drivers they could add 400 miles of charge in as little as 30 minutes using a new �megacharger� to be made by the company. John Feddersen, chief executive of Aurora Energy Research, a consultancy set up in 2013 by a group of Oxford university professors, said the power required for the megacharger to fill a battery in that amount of time would be 1,600 kilowatts. That is the equivalent of providing 3,000-4,000 �average� houses, he told a London conference last week, ten times as powerful as Tesla�s current network of �superchargers� for its electric cars. Tesla declined to comment on the calculations. Elon Musk, Tesla�s chief executive, has previously said the megachargers would be solar-powered but the company has not confirmed whether they will also have a grid connection for when it is not sunny. Many of Tesla�s current superchargers are powered in part by renewable energy. The company is also experimenting with storage batteries to ease demands on the grid. Tesla has not yet said when it will begin installing its megachargers but says it will begin deliveries of the truck in 2019. Mr Feddersen used the example of the Tesla truck to highlight the need for greater debate around how grid infrastructure will need to be adapted to meet demand for electric vehicles. �There are smart and dumb ways to incorporate this level of capacity requirement into the system, but either way, fully electrified road transport will need a large amount of new infrastructure,� he told the Financial Times. Other experts in battery technology have claimed that charging a truck in half an hour would require technology exceeding anything available. �The fastest chargers today can support up to around 450kW charging, so it�s not clear yet how Tesla will achieve their desired charging speeds,� said Colin McKerracher, head of advanced transport at Bloomberg New Energy Finance, a consultancy. �One option may be to segment the battery somehow and actually charge different segments simultaneously. This adds additional costs and we haven't seen anything like that done at anywhere near this power output.� National Grid, which oversees Britain�s electricity system, has suggested that in the most extreme scenario, electric vehicles could create as much as 18 gigawatts of additional demand for power at peak times in the UK by 2050. This is the equivalent cap

In its two years on the road, the hydrogen-electric Toyota Mirai run by private hire company Green Tomato Cars has passed its first 50,000 miles with zero problems and zero harmful emissions. In fact, the only by-product from Mirai�s on-board electric power generation system has been pure water � around 7,470 litres, or enough to fill more than 93 domestic bathtubs. �The Mirai still feels like new and is a joy to drive, being easy to manoeuvre and providing smooth and reliable performance whatever the weather or road conditions. It�s also been very quick to refuel, taking less than four minutes, and I typically get 300 miles from a full tank.� The speed of refuelling contrasts with the amount of time battery-electric vehicles need to be parked up for recharging. In the course of its first 50,000 miles, the Mirai will have spent only about 14 hours in total at the pumps; charging a typical battery-electric hatchback at home with a special, high-power 7kW charger would have taken at least 50 days to allow the same mileage to be covered*. Jonny Goldstone (above), founder and CEO of Green Tomato Cars, said: �When we decided to be the first private hire company in Europe to take on hydrogen fuel cell vehicles, we were excited at the prospect of providing zero emission transport in such an innovative vehicle, but the Mirai has far exceeded our expectations. In terms of comfort, driving experience, ease of refuelling and range it�s been a revelation � and most importantly, our passengers just love it.� It may be one of the most technically advanced cars on the planet but Mirai has comparatively straightforward servicing requirements, so the car is not off the road for long. In fact, compared to a conventional petrol or diesel engine, there are fewer powertrain components to monitor, maintain or replace. In addition to the usual checks on brakes, fluids and tyres, there is an inspection of the fuel cell�s cooling system, hydrogen sensor and hydrogen fuel supply system.

As of now the National Innovation Programme for Hydrogen and Fuel Cell Technology (NIP) is funding the construction of publicly accessible hydrogen refuelling stations in road transport. The funding amounts to 60 per cent of the refuelling station�s investment costs and can include the building of an electrolyser for the generation of green hydrogen. Funding applications may be submitted to the Federal Ministry of Transport and Digital Infrastructure (BMVI) until 31 March 2018. The new funding call is part of the National Innovation Programme for Hydrogen and Fuel Cell Technology (2016-2026) � or NIP 2 � under the market activation funding guideline. The BMVI is allocating 250 million euro in all for research, development and innovation as well as market activation measures until 2019. To date fuel cell vehicles in local public transport and in fleets, trains and ships with fuel cells as well as the necessary refuelling infrastructure have been funded via the market activation funding guideline.

Part 2 lon Musk, CEO of electric car company Tesla, has called fuel cells �mind-bogglingly stupid,� �incredibly dumb� and referred to them as �fool cells,� claiming that they are less energy efficient than batteries. But proponents of the technology have countered that hydrogen fuel cars can be refueled quickly and have a longer range than electric ones. Tesla is also pitching its batteries for applications in the data center, last week revealing one customer who did away with their traditional UPS and generators. However, even if they turn to lithium-ion batteries for UPS systems, most data center operators will still rely on diesel gensets as a backup power supply. Here, fuel cells could make a real difference - Apple, which normally powers its data centers with renewable energy (including power purchasing agreements) previously revealed that it used 261,580 gallons of diesel in a year to run its facilities when the grid failed.

Good find RH. First systems to be developed this year German automotive firm Daimler could bring its hydrogen fuel cells to the data center, in partnership with Hewlett Packard Enterprise (HPE), LiteOn�s Power Innovations (PI) and the National Renewable Energy Laboratory (NREL). The project is also supported by Mercedes-Benz Research and Development North America (MBRDNA) and Daimler Innovations Lab1886. Starting this year, the partners aim to develop prototype continuous power solutions and stationary power systems for data center backup. First cars, then data centers SHOW FULLSCREEN fuel cell, daimler Source: Daimler �The maturity of automotive fuel cell systems is unquestioned today. They are ready for everyday use and constitute a viable option for the transportation sector,� Prof. Dr. Christian Mohrdieck, fuel cell director at Daimler AG and CEO of Daimler subsidiary NuCellSys, said. �However, the opportunities for hydrogen beyond the mobility sector - energy, industrial and residential sectors - are versatile and require the development of new strategies. Economies of scale and therefore modularization are important challenges.� Hydrogen fuel cells combine hydrogen and oxygen to produce electricity, with water created as a byproduct. The fuel cells are therefore perfectly green when in use, but can lead to the release of greenhouse gases during manufacturing. The amount of carbon emissions from hydrogen fuel production depends on where and how it is harvested - today, it predominantly comes from natural gas. The natural gas is converted into hydrogen and carbon dioxide, but, as The Union of Concerned Scientists noted in a 2014 report, this still leads to less emissions than in a traditional car engine. Hydrogen can also be extracted from water using renewable energy sources, which - if the process becomes more common - would drastically reduce the carbon footprint of the cells themselves. Daimler�s announcement was timed to coincide with the news that the Mercedes-Benz GLC F-Cell has entered pre-production. A car sporting Daimler�s fuel cell tech, as well as lithium-ion batteries, the GLC F-Cell will be one of the few cars of this type to hit the road. The technology, while reasonably mature, still faces a tough uphill climb to wider adoption in the automotive industry. Those advocating a move away from fossil fuels are split on whether to use fuel cells or lithium-ion - both requiring significant investment in refueling infrastructure if they expect to reach mass-market appeal. Elon Musk, CEO of electric car company Tesla, has called fuel cells �mind-bogglingly stupid,� �incredibly dumb� and referred to them as �fool cells,� claiming that they are less energy efficient than batteries. But proponents of the technology have countered that hydrogen fuel cars can be refueled quickly and have a longer range than