Category: News

With The ARC Cleantech Innovation Festival approaching in early June, we were very pleased to have Carlos Ruiz-Garvia, Andreas Schäfer, and Vanessa Völkel from our UN co-hosts, as well as our new EU Policy Manager Marlène Siméon, in town. The press conference was an...

The ARC 23, Europe’s most ambitious cleantech innovation festival, will zoom in on the innovation processes in some of the hardest-to-abate industry sectors. Our first chapter, Cleantech Innovation, will focus on accelerating innovation in the climate technology space. Join us as...

We are very proud to announce that our Cleantech Analyst Antoine Koen has been awarded the Helios Prize from Cambridge University’s Engineering Department. The prize, dedicated to graduate research on sustainable energy / energy efficiency, was awarded for his paper on low-temperature glide...

Long Duration Energy Storage is needed in European energy markets to improve energy security and reduce total system costs, including energy generation and infrastructure. Many services provided by LDES technologies, such as curtailment reduction, congestion reduction, and power quality are...

The European Electricity Market Design Reform must strategically plan for Long Duration Energy Storage and should aim to accelerate the transition to a sustainable and affordable energy system by boosting investment where it is most needed to achieve the EU’s...

Long Duration Energy Storage (LDES) innovators face challenges to scale-up and find long-term funding and support. European legislators must agree on an EU-wide LDES policy to build a strategic LDES reserve to balance renewables.  FCA co-hosted a workshop on LDES market...

Last week, FCA received a visit from the State Chairwoman of the Green Party in North Rhine-Westphalia, Yazgülü Zeybek. Amongst other topics, the discussion focused on renewable energies and the need for storage, the possibilities of geothermal energy, and the current situation...