Equinor’s decision to halt its blue hydrogen project in Groningen is not a story about engineering failure or lack of public support. It is a story about the absence of customers. The H2M project secured support from the EU Innovation Fund and was positioned as a cornerstone of industrial decarbonization … [continued]
Once upon a time, I lived in the city of Groningen. I still think it has the best quality of life of any city I’ve ever lived in or visited
Ebusco delivered 60 of its 12-meter Ebusco 2.2 electric buses to transit operator Qbuzz in the Netherlands. The new buses were brought into the service area in grand fashion, as a parade of the titans traveled the 250 kilometers into Groningen for the official delivery.
The good news is the Dutch provinces of Groningen and Drenthe have partnered on the purchase of 159 electric buses. That’ll make it the largest European the largest electric bus fleet in Europe. 60 of those electric buses come from EBUSCO, which is how we learned of the good news.
Bike paths: The Netherlands is covered with them, connecting more or less every destination a person might wish to go to and greatly increasing the convenience of cycling as a sustainable mode of transport. In the densely populated country, where space is scarce, a consortium of companies and research labs called Solaroad is endeavoring to make those cycle lanes reduce carbon emissions in yet another way: by having them to generate solar electricity.
Following up on the first 20 cleantech city solutions that I promoted here and here, below are 10 more cleantech solutions that cities can implement to more quickly propel humanity into a sustainable cleantech future.
Cities are where most of the world’s people live, and they can make the move toward cleantech and away from burning up the planet go much, much — much — faster. In fact, some policies could trump critical levers like ZEV mandates, and if adopted broadly, make the ZEV transition happen faster than most of us think possible.
During my cleantech tour of the Netherlands last year, I got to interview the head of EnTranCe and another key leader there, an interesting business innovation center for applied sciences that is connected to Hanze University of Applied Sciences and Energy Academy Europe. Jan-Jaap Aué is Dean of the Institute of … [continued]
While on my cleantech tour around the Netherlands, I had the pleasure of chatting with Jarry Scheepens-Hasek about a renewable energy master’s program she has helped to develop (thanks to Karel Beckman of EnergyPost.eu for hooking us up). You can learn much more about the program in my video interview … [continued]
Originally published on Sustainnovate. Following up on my articles on the history of solar power science, history of solar power policy, history of solar power manufacturing, history of wind turbines, and history of trains, here’s a piece on the history of electric cars. Most people mean “electric car” when they … [continued]
