PROJECT NEWS

This June, EVERYWH2ERE partners, together with local authorities part of the project’s regions and city interest group will organise a series of informal online exchanges and presentations to advance local hydrogen agendas.

The group is bringing together local and regional authorities interested in exploring hydrogen solutions to reduce air pollution and noise in their city. Discussions will focus on the role and potential of hydrogen in promoting local low-emission development, also in light of the current COVID-19 crisis.

During the online exchange, partners will deep dive with group members into several key aspects for integrating hydrogen solutions into their planning, such as the possible role of hydrogen in the sustainable energy mix, hydrogen in the urban context, opportunities for local authorities related to national hydrogen strategies, and how to use hydrogen for a more sustainable building and construction sector.

The group is open for all local authorities who would like to network with peers on developing, advancing and promoting their local hydrogen agenda, or wish to host one of the portable, zero-emission, zero-noise hydrogen fuel cell generators developed by EVERYWH2ERE to replace diesel generators for energising temporary events, such as construction sites, festivals, concerts, and harbours.

Authorities and stakeholders who are interested to join, can find more information on how to become a part of the EVERYWH2ERE regions and cities interest group here, or contact arthur.hinsch@iclei.org.

In September 2020, EVERYWH2ERE project partner ICLEI Europe will moderate a session on “Hydrogen Roll out Case Studies & Projects” as part of the World Hydrogen Congress that from 23rd to 24th September in Paris.

Brining the experience from the EVERYWH2ERE regions & cities interest group to the congress, the session will discuss policies, incentives, frameworks and financing schemes, as well as lessons learned and system integration challenges from Italy and the Netherlands.

Within the framework of the EVERYWH2ERE city and regions interest group, local authorities from Turin (Italy), Kozani (Greece) and Kreis Steinfurt (Germany) are currently exploring EVERYWH2ERE gensets as zero-noise and zero-emission solutions for providing energy for construction sites, festivals, harbours and other temporary events. The group is open for local and regional governments looking to test and engage with new hydrogen fuel cell technologies and solutions to reduce air pollution, noise and emissions. Local and regional governments interested in testing the EVERYWH2ERE gensets, and in exchanging with other cities and regions on innovative policy tools by becoming part of the project’s pan-European demonstration and roll-out campaign, can find more information about the group here.

The World Hydrogen Congress will be taking place in Paris from the 24 – 25 March 2020, bringing together senior decision makers and stakeholders from across the hydrogen production and distribution value chain. The full agenda and programme can be found here.

ICLEI Member cities and regions interested in attending the event can benefit from a partner discount of twenty percent. To secure the discount click here or contact iclei-europe@iclei.org.

Everywh2ere Project will participate at the European Film Market (EFM) and the Berlinale Film Festival with the objective to debate the industry’s skills, tools and models for sustainability.

“If we are serious about climate mitigation, the entertainment industry (like every industry)  must be ready to make radical changes”, the EFM states. On Sunday 23^rd February, Jacob Bilabel, founder of the Green Music Initiative and partner of the Everywh2ere project will participate in several sessions of “Sustainability at EFM”.

These sessions are talks and discussions to chart progress made so far and develop industry calls to action: From the major milestones already achieved in sustainable production and necessary next steps, to the mammoth but not impossible task of greening the festival circuit, to confronting the shocking environmental impact of audiovisual streaming platforms, and beginning to imagine an entirely new creative ecosystem, whose environmental, social, financial and cultural sustainability could be supported by low carbon and smart technologies. In this framework hydrogen technologies and our EVERYWH2ERE gensets can support film industry decarbonization providing low emissions and low noise power to film sets and other temporary usage.

More information:

sustainABILITY: New Green Skills, Tools and Models for Industry-Wide Transformation (Sunday, 23 February, 11.30 am – 1.15 pm)

Call to Action: Social-Ecological Transformation in the Creative Economy (Sunday, 23 Feb, 11.30 am)

Impulse Talk with Jacob Sylvester Bilabel (Founder, Green Music Initiative / Everywh2ere Hydrogen)

Rolling Out the Green Carpet? Redesigning the Film Festival for Sustainability (Sunday, 23 Feb, 11.40 am)

Panel with Jacob Bilabel (Founder Green Music Initiative / Everywh2ere Hydrogen), Matthijs Wouter Knol (Director European Film Market)

On 21^st and 22^nd January 2020 a technical meeting of the Everywh2ere project as well as the annual General Assembly took place in Berlin in order to assess the status of planned actions and establish how to tackle the upcoming steps.

All thirteen partners met in Berlin in this 24^th month-meeting of the project: RINA Consulting, from Italy; Teknologian Tutkimuskeskus VTT Oy, from Finland; Powercell Sweden AB, from Sweden; Genport srl, from Italy; MAHYTEC SARL, from France; Fundación para el Desarrollo de las Nuevas Tecnologías del Hidrógeno en Aragón, from Spain;  Green Music Initiative gUg, from Germany; Parco Scientifico e Tecnologico per l’Ambiente – ENVI, from Italy; Acciona Construcción, from Spain; ICLEI – Local Governments for Sustainability, from Germany; THT Control, from Finland; FRIEM S.p.A., from Italy; and LINDE Gas, from Italy.

Everywh2ere is currently on the second year of a five-year plan. The project is going according to plan and, despite some minor delays, the first tests for the Fuel Cell gensets are expected to begin in the upcoming months.  The demonstration campaign is foreseen to start next summer.

These Fuel Cells gensets that are currently being developed will be the main results from Everywh2ere, that aims to demonstrate that zero emission and zero noise generators are logistically and technically viable to provide power supply for isolated places or temporary events (construction sites, music festivals, exhibition centers, etc).

If you are interested in hosting one of the gensets developed in the project, please contact us:

The Everywh2ere project became a wildcard winner to present the project at the Innofest session at Amsterdam Dance event (18 October)

Amsterdam Dance Event’s festival program covers the whole spectrum of electronic subgenres, with over 2,500 artists performing in 140 of Amsterdam’s finest music and nightlife spaces. 

In 2018 the festival welcomed 400,000 festival & conference visitors from over 100 countries in 140 venues, which makes it the world’s biggest festival & conference for electronic music. 

Innofest: Seven Innovations That Will Change The Industry

If you’re after new ways to make your event, festival or business more sustainable, then be sure not to skip this part of ADE Green.

More and more event organizers talk about sustainability, about “smarter” and about “cleaner”. 

But who are the real innovators and what are their solutions? Innofest gives green entrepreneurs and inventors the chance to test their innovation at real, working festival sites. Using the festivals’ flexible water and energy grids as a living lab, Innofest lets over thirty entrepreneurs each year to pilot their ideas “IRL: in real live”.

In this year’s ADE Green program, Innofest is inviting seven of the most promising startups to present their ideas for much-needed change at ADE Green. Things like circular water solutions, mobile sun power stations and gamification to improve waste separation: ready to go innovations, now with a test record to prove it. So, walk-in, meet the startups and start making an impact at your event

https://www.amsterdam-dance-event.nl/en/program/2019/innofest-seven-innovations-that-will-change-the-industry/42784/

A music festival has the same energy need as a small city over the weekend. Because missing grid connection, no technical infrastructure and very little uptake of digital smart metering systems, this energy is mostly produced very inefficiently by gasoline generators on site. With more than 500 big festivals and more than 5000 bigger events alone in Germany, this causes a lot of unnecessary stress on the environment. But there are alternatives. European cities can become living labs for the demonstration of Fuel Cell and Hydrogen (FCH) technologies, which produce clean renewable energy with no CO2 or noise emissions at all. Meet the trailblazers paving the way for others to follow. Learn about visions, challenges and pitfalls on our way to a renewable future.

Speaker
– Arthur Baux, Manager Hydrogen Business Unit, Engie, France
– Jacob Sylvester Bilabel, Everywh2ere Hydrogen Gensets, Green Music Initiative, Germany
– Björn Hansen, Founder, Futur 2 Festival, Germany
– Faas Moonen, Project Manager, Green Energy Mill, Netherlands
– Najma Souroque, Head of Sustainability & Think Tank, We Love Green, France

Moderator

-Jacob Sylvester Bilabel, Founder, Green Music Initiative, Germany

https://www.reeperbahnfestival.com/en/conference/hydrogen-as-key-to-our-clean-energy-future

On 11-12 June 2019, EVERYWH2ERE consortium met in Helsinki, Finland, at VTT Headquarters, for the celebration of the Month 16 General Assembly (GA) of the project.

The main goal of this meeting was to discuss the current status of the project and the definition of the next steps to be carried out during the forthcoming months.

The Consortium has progressed in the final FC Gensets specifications and the two partners recently incorporated to the Consortium (THT and FRIEM) are fully engaged in the activities.

The whole EVERYWH2ERE project Consortium has continued its strong commitment to engage Stakeholders and different industrial groups to the project, and a workshop for the Regions and Cities Interest Group was held in Brussels in month 11 in Brussels (January 2019). The project has been also presented in several conferences and workshops, and both industrial and regional groups and also events’ promoters have been contacted during this period.

Over the coming months, project partners will keep on defining the demonstration calendar where EVERYWH2ERE prototypes will be tested during the demonstration phase, aiming at evaluating the FC Gensets performance and collecting data for their future replication.

The next General Assembly of the project will be held in January 2020.

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On 3 June Pedro Casero from Aragon Hydrogen Foundation presented the EVERYWH2ERE project in the International Workshop for Global Sustainability “Space Sustainability”, which was held at the European Space Agency (ESA) in Madrid, Spain on June 3-5.

This Workshop is organized by The Partnership for Global Sustainability (PGS), a global network of public and private organizations and individuals that works at the nexus between the space and aerospace sectors and terrestrial sustainability challenges.

The EVERYWH2ERE project was invited to participate in the “Increasing Space Mission Critical Ground Infrastructure Resiliency through Sustainability” Session.

The goal of this session was examining several ways that sustainable approaches to infrastructure planning and refurbishment can contribute to the resilience of the space sector’s critical ground infrastructure.

During the presentation, the current status of the technologies of hydrogen and the roadmap the FCH JU has recently launched were discussed.

The targets of EVERYWH2ERE project were connected both to that roadmap and its potential application as replacement of diesel gensets in Space Mission Critical Ground Infrastructure.