"Callux", the German Residential Fuel Cell Programme is Launched in Berlin
Tuesday saw the launch of Germanys largest country wide residential fuel cell test programme, named Callux. The project, which is funded by the German Ministry for Transport, Building and Planning (BMVBS), is being run and coordinated under the National Innvoation Programme for Hydrogen and FUel Cells (NOW).
Phase one, which runs to 2012, will see the installation of large number of units throughout Germany with the aim that by Phase 2 commericalisation of the technology can properly begin.
It is expected that a number of installations will be announced in the coming months via the Callux website.
The projects industrial partners are the fuel cell companies BAXI INNOTECH, Hexis, Vaillant und Viessmann and EnBW, E.ON Ruhrgas, EWE, MVV Energie, VNG Verbundnetz Gas, five energy companies.
Source: Fuel Cell Today
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