Clean Energy Partnership (CEP) is a joint project for world's most versatile hydrogen demonstration. It is aiming for emission-free mobility and has several hydrogen station

Hydrogen station

A hydrogen station is a storage or filling station for hydrogen, usually located along a road or hydrogen highway, or at home as part of the distributed generation resources concept. The stations are usually intended to power vehicles, but can also be used to power small devices. Vehicles use...

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As of May 2010 the CEP is a consortium of thirteen partners:
Berliner Verkehrsbetriebe BVG

Berliner Verkehrsbetriebe

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 (Berlin transit authority), BMW

BMW

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, Daimler

Daimler

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, Ford, GM

General Motors

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/Opel

Opel

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, Hamburger Hochbahn

Hamburger Hochbahn

Hamburger Hochbahn AG or HHA is a company operating the underground system and large parts of the bus system in Hamburg, Germany, founded in 1911 it is headquartered in Hamburg.-History:...

 (Hamburg transit company), Linde Group

The Linde Group

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, Royal Dutch Shell

Royal Dutch Shell

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, Statoil

Statoil

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, Total

Total S.A.

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, Toyota, Vattenfall Europe

Vattenfall

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, and Volkswagen Group

Volkswagen Group

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Milestones

• In November 2004 the first hydrogen station was opened in Messedamn, Berlin
  Berlin
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  , Germany
  Germany
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• On July 13, 2006 Volkswagen Group joined the partnership.

In September, 2009 seven members of the Clean Energy Partnership signed a Memorandum of Understanding with NOW GmbH (Nationale Organisation Wasserstoff- und Brennstoffzellentechnologie, "National Organisation Hydrogen and Fuel Cell Technology", a state organisation. represented by the Federal Ministry of Transport, Building and Urban Development.
It called for two phases of work

1. "leverage plans to install new hydrogen fuelling stations by 2011"
2. Depending on the progress of this, a nation-wide roll-out of hydrogen fuelling stations will be continued, supporting the introduction of series produced hydrogen powered vehicles in Germany around 2015.

As of September 2006 CEP had 17 hydrogen stations.

External links

• Homepage of Clean Energy Partnership
• Honda FCX Clarity Honda aid CEP programs through providing two FCX Clarity fuel cell cars
• Ulrich Hottelet: State funding for hybrid dreams, The Asia Pacific Times, October 2009