Ballard Power Systems has announced that Azure Hydrogen Energy Science and Technology Corporation (Azure), Ballard's partner in China, has acquired a 10% ownership position in Dantherm Power, Ballard's telecom backup power subsidiary, for $2 million. Mr. Grand Mao, Chairman of Azure, will become a member of the Dantherm Power Board of Directors and will support the business in achieving commercial success i ...

Osaka Gas Co. in collaboration with Aisin Seiki Co., Kyocera Corp., Chofu Seisakusho Co. and Toyoto Motor Corp. announced that  it will start selling one of the world’s most efficient household fuel cells on April 27. The ENE-FARM Type S features a power generation efficiency of 46.5%, the best operation rate in the world for house hold use.  According to the five cooperated companies, the new model will be ...

Under Thailand’s first Smart City Project, Nakhon Nayok province has recently signed a MOU to cover the entire province with broadband infrastructure and enhance the connection among local agencies with high speed internet via optical fibre. Presiding over the signing ceremony, Nakhon Nayok Governor Dr Surachai Sirisaracam said that as the first Smart City, Nakhon Nayok would leverage ICT to strengthen the ...

The Department of Energy has released a circular creating an inter-agency committee to develop a Smart Grid policy framework and roadmap for the power industry. The Smart Grid innovation applies information technology (IT) to electricity transmission and distribution infrastructure, computerizing the entire power grid from the suppliers' end to the consumers' end and automating the gathering of information ...

Honda Motor Co., Toyota Motor Corp. and Hyundai Motor Co. are among automakers aiming to sell new fuel cell vehicles as soon as 2015. But the vehicles may be unprofitable for a decade after that. Honda's top engineer for the technology says his company expects the vehicles to be profitable by 2025. Speaking at an automotive battery conference, Takashi Moriya, Honda senior chief engineer, said that's when th ...

Japan has extracted natural "ice gas" from methane hydrates beneath the sea off its coasts in a technological coup, opening up a super-resource that could meet the country's gas needs for the next century and radically change the world's energy outlook. The state-owned oil and gas company JOGMEC said an exploration ship had successfully drilled 300 metres below the seabed into deposits of methane hydrate, a ...

Tata Power is scouting for partners to pursue opportunities in the area of fuel cell technologies, as part of efforts to strengthen its presence in clean energy space. Tata Power, which has an installed generation capacity of about 8,500 MW, including 852 MW from renewable energy sources, said it is actively looking for fuel cell technology partners to pursue opportunities in the Indian market. Fuel cells r ...

The creation of the smart grid remains a colossal undertaking. Many complex smart grid programs are underway, but the scale of what remains to be done is enormous. The challenges ahead translate into strong growth for vendors of smart grid technologies – transmission upgrades, automation of substations and distribution, smart grid IT, and smart meters. According to a new report from Pike Research, a part of ...

After buying Landis+Gyr close to two years ago, Toshiba is making another, albeit, much smaller acquisition in the smart grid sector. Last week Toshiba announced that it plans to acquire start-up Consert, which had been building a smart home service. Founded in 2008, Consert connects devices in the home like a water heater, heating and air conditioning units, pool pumps, and thermostats. The connected devic ...

Security experts said on Monday a highly sophisticated computer virus is infecting computers in Iran and other Middle East countries and may have been deployed at least five years ago to engage in state-sponsored cyber espionage. Evidence suggest that the virus, dubbed Flame, may have been built on behalf of the same nation or nations that commissioned the Stuxnet worm that attacked Iran's nuclear program i ...