Emissions in Belgium are still going up and the Belgian climate policy is a disaster. The country is lagging behind in the new climate ranking of the European Union member states (Belgium 16th place of 28), and will probably not […]
On Thursday the EU decided that from 2023 onward, the share of palm oil in biofuels should go down. From 2030 palm oil should no longer be found in European car tanks at all. This decision does not go as […]
Fairwind, a Walloon company active in the manufacturing and marketing of vertical-axis wind turbines, has just installed its 26th wind turbine. Ten years after a difficult start it is seeing its order book filling up now. 85 MWh every year […]
Philippe Joubert says that you can’t deny climate change anymore. His mission is to convince companies that sustainability will bring in (more) money in the long run. That’s why he founded Earth on Board. Philippe Joubert has worked a long […]
European countries like France, the Netherlands, Sweden and Spain, want more ambitious goals for renewable energy, but Poland and the Czech Republic, still depending on the use of polluting coal, are obstructive… as is Flanders. Promises Flanders first wants to […]
The Belgian railway company is continuing its plan for a more sustainable environment by installing 6.100 solar panels on the roof of its Forest/Vorst workshop. When production is high, they will also provide electricity to the company’s offices. Go greener […]
Is hydrogen (H2) the miracle molecule that will allow humanity to succeed in its ecological transition or just a fata morgana? Pro and contra protagonists are facing each other with knives drawn. French newspaper Le Monde draws up the balance […]
Giant of the steel industry ArcelorMittal announced on Monday that it will produce bioethanol from the gases coming out of its Ghent blast furnace. The production of 80 million litres per year is estimated to start by 2020. The world’s […]
The University of Ghent has decided to cut back on flights to about 60 European destinations. University personnel travelling on duty to London, Cambridge, Paris or Amsterdam from now on only can book a train or bus ticket. The Flemish […]
Dutch electricity production and distribution company Alliander sells its charging station network daughter Allego to French investor Meridiam, specialized in sustainable infrastructure projects, like wind mill and solar farms among others. Allego manages some 8.000 charging points in six European […]
In the new pump installation and hydropower station of the Albert channel in Godsheide – Hasselt (Belgium) three gigantic Archimedes’ screws were installed on Tuesday. The colossal screws – 22 metre long, 4,30 metre diameter, weighing 100 tons – are […]
In the Netherlands the energy consumption coming from renewable sources, like wind and solar energy, biomass and geothermal energy, has gone up with 10% in 2017. As a result the share of sustainable energy increased to 6,6%, compared to 5,9% […]
Shell opened its first LNG filling station for trucks in Herstal, near Liège, on Monday. The company wants to open three more LNG stations in Belgium in the coming months. LNG stands for Liquefied Natural Gas and is regarded as […]
As from this year, all the lighting poles on the motorways in Flanders will be converted into modern LED lighting. They provide better visibility and road safety. In addition, an annual saving of 4 million euro in energy costs and […]
Technologically speaking it would be perfectly possible to have a self-driving van to deliver packages into the city, as was shown during a three-day test in the most important shopping street (Bruul) in Mechelen (Belgium). The practical organization, however, is […]
Belgian federal Mobility Minister, François Bellot (MR), has decided that only full electric vehicles and not the hybrids are allowed to park at charging stations. Hybrids aren’t because – even when running out of electricity – they can rely on […]
Last year only 0,63% or 5.506 full electric cars were driving around in Flanders, a figure that is far below the 7,5% aimed at by 2020. According to Jeroen Cockx, coordinator of the Flemish action plan ‘Clean Power for Transport’, […]
Cars driving on CNG (Compressed Natural Gas) are cheaper than cars using petrol, diesel or electricity, as is the conclusion of a new study of CREG, the Commission for the Regulation of Electricity and Gas. All simulations show that gas […]
In Dilsen-Stokkem, in the province of Limburg (Belgium), a backup battery park is inaugurated on Monday to help network managing company Elia stabilize peaks in the electricity grid, store green electricity and power up a complete holiday village. The 1.500 […]
In Jardelund (North Germany) the biggest battery in Europe has been put into use. ‘EnspireMe’, as the Eneco/Mitsubishi battery is called, will save the surplus of energy produced by wind turbines and solar panels. At moments of shortage of wind […]
Flanders holds a third position in the European ranking for wind energy production per square kilometre, as turns out to be the case according to figures of Flemish Energy Minister, Bart Tommelein (Open Vld). “To convince Flanders, you have to […]
The first submarine high-tension cable connecting the Belgian and British electricity grid is about to land on the beach at Zeebrugge these days. The 140 km long ‘Nemo’ cable has a capacity of 1.000 megawatt, somewhat the output of a […]
Big stores like Ikea, Decathlon, Brantano or Bio-Planet, usually situated in shopping zones at the border of the city, want to return to the city centre for just one reason: they want to conquer new and young clients with growing […]
Seventeen American states are going to take Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) to court because begin of April the agency decided to cancel limitations on emission standards and rules about fuel efficiency of vehicles in the USA. Coalition Earlier, in mid-April, […]
Pascal De Buck is CEO of Fluxys. Last week the company bought a large participation in Desfa, the Greek gas distributor, and wants to enlarge the participation in the LNG terminal in Dunkerque and start a hydrogen converting project with […]
The Dutch bureau for technical advice, Sweco, has done a survey lately on how to go on holiday in Europe with an electric car. The problems in many EU countries are still huge. The Sweco team went for a fictive […]
Audi has revealed some new details about its e-tron, to be built in the Brussels Audi factory starting this year. It will have a 95 kWh battery, build in-house in Brussels, able to be (DC) charged at 150 kW. A […]
When cities and municipalities would switch to smart LED lights instead of keeping the conventional lighting systems they could save 680 million euro, according to calculations of Belgian technology federation Agoria. Political party N-VA already suggested to switch to LED […]
Wallonia will soon dispose of 120 new charging stations for electric vehicles. Walloon Minister of Energy, Jean-Luc Crucke (MR), has put the issue on the coming order of the day for the Walloon government on Thursday. Only 280 charging points […]
The last three years the cost of driving a diesel car has gone up with 30% because of taxation, says Flemish mobility club VAB. They analyzed the impact of the new Flemish traffic taxation (2016) and the gradual alignment of […]
Flemish research centre IMEC from Louvain has developed a prototype of a solid state battery, where the conductor starts as liquid but becomes a solid material. The researchers claim a break-through, a “first step towards the super battery” with twice […]
With the technical face-lift of the popular Outlander PHEV (plug-in hybrid vehicle) Mitsubishi has announced to aim for an entire energy network, including home, office, loading station and the grid. The substantial technical update of the Outlander PHEV announced at […]
In the near future Flemish companies can have a direct connection between their company and a wind or solar park, without passing via the distribution net. “This is going to be a game changer for projects of renewable energy”, says […]
Flanders is investing 819.000 euro – some 60% of the total price – in three experimental solar thermal heating installations to be built in Ostend, the Antwerp harbour and the Thor Science Park in Genk. In total they will produce […]
By 2025 20% of the energy demand in France can be cared for with hydrogen, while 18% of the vehicles can be propelled by hydrogen by then. Afhypac, an association of a hundred key players promoting hydrogen in France, is […]
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