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 […]
Shipping traffic is contributing to global warming. Today ships account for 3% of global CO2 emissions but figures for future’s outlook are inauspicious. According to the International Maritime Organization, the marine branch of the United Nations, shipping traffic emissions will […]
Crown prince Mohamed bin Salman of Saudi Arabia has announced that his country will start up the biggest solar energy project in the world. The Saudis are ambitious: in 2030 they want to produce 200 gigawatt (GW) per year, half […]
Only one quarter of all planned charging stations for electric cars on Flemish roads is already installed, 5.674 still have to be installed within two years. “At this pace we will never obtain the necessary coverage by 2020”, says Joris […]
The Czech Republic is going to build batteries with its own patents, own capital and its own reserves of lithium that it recently started to mine and that are the largest in Europe. The Prague company HE3DA is investing 180 […]
All Walloon roads, not only the motorways but also secondary roads, have to be equipped with LED (Light-Emitting Diode) lighting by 2021, as was announced by the Walloon government on Thursday. The project will cost 22 million euro. 73.000 light […]
According to a recent EY study revealed in Frankfurt the German car industry is by far the heaviest investor in electrically driven vehicles. The last two years the 16 largest car manufacturers have invested approximately 5,3 billion euro in electrification. […]
With the Audi plant in Brussels getting its official CO2-neutral label from the Vinçotte certification institute on Monday, the Belgian factory claims to be ‘the world’s first premium car factory to build its cars in a complete CO2-free way’. The […]
At the Geneva International Motor Show we talked to Gerald Killmann, Vice President R&D at Toyota Europe. His statement is clear: hydrogen will happen, it is a necessity for the future. “The more renewable energy we get, the more hydrogen […]
Flanders has surpassed its wind and solar energy targets in 2017. Last year 204 MWe wind energy and 177 MWe solar energy was produced, while only 150% MWe was expected. Flemish Energy Minister Bart Tommelein (Open Vld) is happy with […]
French hydrogen specialist Air Liquide and ten Japanese companies among which car makers Toyota, Nissan and Honda are joining forces to equip the Japanese archipelago with hydrogen fuel stations. A total of 1.000 billion yen or 7,7 billion euro will […]
Dutch electric vehicle (EV) charging company Fastned has unveiled the first of its new ‘super chargers’, at De Watering along the A8 highway near Amsterdam capable of ‘charging 100 times faster than at home’. Only 15 minutes of charging time […]
Last year only one out of four private car buyers chose diesel propulsion. A few years ago diesel was still king in Belgium, now its reign is disappearing rapidly. Diesel as a car fuel is in decline. If you look […]
Since January 2018 works have started to connect the Belgian and German electricity grid. By 2020 the new high tension line – costing 500 million euro – will be able to transport 1.000 MW, some 10% of the average power […]
The Belgian energy regulator CREG declares that the arrival of many electric cars will not lead to an electric power blackout. They can even help to balance production and consumption peaks. On one condition: they can’t be all charged at […]
Belgian government is looking for a suitable site on the North Sea to put floating solar panels in the near future. Secretary for the North Sea Phlippe De Backer (Open-VLD) is to assign a zone to set up a small […]
The proposition of the Northern Netherlands provinces to change from natural gas to hydrogen has provoked some reactions. “Why not use simply electricity instead of converting it into hydrogen”, says chemical technologist Cees Krijnen. Following the problems of the winning […]
By 2025 Europe wants at least ten to twenty mega-battery factories on the continent and is willing to reach deep in its pocket for that. Belgian battery material supplier Umicore, who just announced to invest 660 million euro in a […]
In a letter to the Dutch Minister for Economic Affairs and Climate the northern provinces of the Netherlands and the big employers over there claim that “green hydrogen is the alternative for natural gas from Groningen. The government has to […]
Flemish Energy Minister Bart Tommelein (Open VLD) wants a premium system for people installing a battery to store electricity at home. The premium system for home batteries should be operational in the summer of this year. “Installing a big capacity […]
Peter Wouters, MD at bus builder VDL in Roeselare, says Flanders is lagging behind in the change to the electric bus. Flemish Minister for Mobility Ben Weyts (NV-A) says to be surprised by the critics. Bus manufacturer VDL in Roeselare […]
The Flemish socialist party sp.a wants to make car possession unnecessary in 2030 and asks the government to stop investing in additional road infrastructure. On the 17th of March the Flemish socialist party sp.a will hold its future congress and […]
Dutch Allego, daughter of the electric network managing company Alliander, is to deliver another 419 electric vehicle (EV) charging stations for Flanders. After winning the tender for the first 650 ones, it reeled in the second tender too, part of […]
Representatives of the German steel and electricity companies and the labor unions have reached an agreement in the Land of Baden-Wurtemberg. Expectations are that the same agreement will be signed all over the country. The IG Metall labor union has […]
South Australia, fourth largest state of the continent, is going to equip 50.000 households for free with solar panels and a Tesla backup battery to form one giant power plant. According to Tesla the network of solar panels will have […]
Belgian solar panel engineering company iLumen from Tessenderlo has presented on Thursday its self developed backup battery system for solar panels, called iLubat. An alternative for solutions like the Tesla’s Power Wall. The battery unit (on wheels), costing about 2.500 […]
On Monday the Flemish energy agency (Vlaams EnergieAgentschap, VEA) and Flemish Energy Minister Bart Tommelein (Open Vld) have launched the ‘Stroomversneller’ (energy accelerator) campaign. With the challenge ‘Put solar panels on somebody else’s roof’ they call up everybody to nominate […]
Hasselt considers the introduction of a Low Emission Zone (LEZ) by 2020. The city is investigating where exactly to implement the zone, on the small inner ring road or the outer ring road. “Something has to be done”, alderman for […]
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