FCH JU at Hannover Messe 2015
The Fuel cells and Hydrogen Joint Undertaking took part as exhibitor in the 2015 edition of the Hannover Messe, the world’s leading trade fair for industrial technology, with 200.000 visitors and 5.000 exhibitors.
New Material and exhibition area
This was the occasion for the FCH JU team to distribute for the first time the new guide leaflet for participants, the Programme Review Report 2014, the Study on Stationary fuel cells in Distributed Generation as well as the Study on the Commercialisation of Energy Storage.

HIGHLIGHTS

Wednesday 15/04: Public and Technical forum
· Public Forum
Bert De Colvenaer (FCH JU Executive Director) took part to a lively podium discussion named Micro CHP Fuel Cells: Roadmap for market launch, together with Alexander Dauensteiner (Vaillant Group) and Fiona Riddoch (Ene.field).
This was followed by a discussion on the Fuel Cells and Hydrogen sector in Europe: the importance of "Joint", together with Gaelle Hotellier (Member of Governing Board at FCH JU, representing the NEW Industry Grouping) and Dr. Christian Sattler (representing the NEW Research Grouping)

· Technical Forum : 4 FCH JU presentations took place, featuring both the new FCH JU Programme Results, a snapshot and next steps of the FCH bus project "Chic" a as well as two presentations of our new studies.
All videos of the public and technical forum are available here: http://www.h2fc-fair.com/hm15/exhibitors/fchju.html
Thursday 16/04
A special "Energy Day" was dedicated at the FCH JU stand to share progress made in FC portable and stationary applications.
Colleagues from project Being Energy joined to showcase the first high temperature polymer electrolyte fuel cell (HT-PEMFC).

The afternoon was dedicated to to micro-CHP applications and the ene.field project in particular to show how steady progress is being made in the deployment of fuel cell micro CHP in Europe.



