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Russia, Moscow

Alexei Miller, CEO of Gazprom – Russia’s state-controlled gas giant – announced that the company  would like to develop a network of CNG filling stations for automobiles all across Europe.  “I would like to announce Gazprom’s new initiative. We are offering our European partners to consider together a project to set up an extensive network of natural gas filling stations in Europe with Gazprom’s participation,” Miller, who is also deputy chairman of Gazprom’s board of directors, told the company’s annual shareholder meeting in Moscow. 


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France

Capacity to service 210 light vehicles

Veolia Environmental Services Ile-de-France is to establish their first French unit producing biomethane from biogas. The project was established in collaboration with Veolia Environnement’s Cleanliness and Energy Research Center (CRPE) and recovers biogas in the form of biomethane on its non-hazardous landfill site of Claye-Souilly (France, 77). This new process, currently in the industrial project phase, will be implemented in the second quarter of 2009. It will produce 60 Nm3/hr of biomethane fuel from 200 Nm3/hr of biogas captured in the landfill, representing the energy requirements of a fleet of 210 light vehicles.

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Canada, Fredericton

Atlantic Hydrogen Inc.(AHI), is reported to be launching a large-scale demonstration project of its CarbonSaver technology, which they state creates a lower emissions natural gas fuel. The three-year, $10 million demonstration project will focus on validating the technology at commercial pressures and flow rates, placing a value on the extracted carbon and developing a commercialization strategy. “The funding from this new partnership will help us advance CarbonSaver towards commercial application by supporting tests of the technology’s capabilities on a significantly larger scale,” says David Wagner, President and CEO of AHI. “At the completion of the demonstration project, CarbonSaver is expected to be ready for use in power plants, compressors, natural gas vehicle refueling and even home and commercial heating.” The three-year demonstration project is scheduled to start this summer. The results are expected to lead to the commercialization of the CarbonSaver technology and the emergence of Atlantic Hydrogen as a leader in clean energy technology development. (source)

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Japan, Hiroshima

Mazda Motor Corporation today received permission from Japan’s Ministry of Land Infrastructure and Transport (MLIT) to test the Mazda Premacy Hydrogen RE Hybrid minivan on public roads. Mazda’s newest hydrogen rotary engine vehicle features a hybrid system that increases the vehicle’s power by 40 percent and doubles the hydrogen fuel range to 200 kilometers (124 miles). Mazda aims to complete the road trials and start commercial leasing in Japan during fiscal year 2008. The Premacy Hybrid is the world’s first hydrogen hybrid car with a bi-fuel system that enables the car to run on either hydrogen or gasoline at the push of a button. The Premacy Hydrogen RE Hybrid also features a hybrid system that combines an electric motor with Mazda’s hydrogen rotary engine to realize significantly enhanced performance.

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USA

CALSTART is partnering with other NGV stakeholders to create a Natural Gas Vehicle Cooperative Purchase Program to coordinate the high volume purchase of light- and medium-duty vehicles by public and private fleets. It is proposed to conduct this program mostly within California, but will include Arizona and Nevada to increase potential demand, with the possibility of expanding it beyond these states if this effort is successful and if there is funding available. The Cooperative will assist fleets in “greening” their fleets with cleaner alternative fuel vehicles at affordable prices. It addition, the Cooperative wants to aggregate large enough numbers to incentivize dealers and manufacturers to not only participate in the Cooperative, but help them expand the market for these vehicles.

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