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14 Spring 2017 European Energy Innovation

FUEL CELLS

FCH JU: accelerating towards a

low-carbon economy

Climate and energy policy is one EU is working to establish a FUEL CELL TECHNOLOGY
of the European Union’s most fully integrated internal energy Fuel cells are such a low-carbon and
important priorities. Affordable, market, improve energy efficiency, clean energy technology. A fuel cell is a
clean and secure energy for all decarbonise the economy, and highly efficient conversion technology
Europe’s citizens and enterprises fund research, innovation and that produces electricity and heat
is key to a sustainable and competitiveness to support through a simple, clean chemical
competitive future. Through breakthroughs in low-carbon and reaction between oxygen and a fuel.
its Energy Union initiative, the clean energy technologies. It produces no pollutants or carbon

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