Nuvera Fuel Cells

Nuvera lended its support to an advertisement that was put up in Roll Call, the “cornerstone publication for Captiol Hill (from their website)” this week. The ad, which was supported by a variety of companies from Levi Strauss to General Electric to the Wildlife Association, called for Congress and the President to extend the renewable energy and energy efficiency tax incentives. Check out the ad below:

If you are interested in supporting the extension, let your members of Congress know with an email. Most senators email addresses are in this format:

Firstname_Lastname@lastnameOFsenator.Senate.gov

and you can use this standard template to reach out to them:

Dear (Staffer):

My name is ________ and I am the ________ for the ACME Company located in ______.

As you may know, our organization is interested in the commercialization of fuel cell technology. Specifically we (BRIEFLY DESCRIBE YOUR INTEREST IN FC’s).

I am writing today to encourage Senator _______ to support S 3335 next week. His/her support will is vital if we want to continue to advance alternative energy technology.

These incentives are vitally important to our industry as they will allow fuel cell developers to overcome the cost premiums that accompany the development of new products.

Failure to act could result in:
• Increased costs to consumers;
• Financial uncertainty among early adopters; and
• A loss of revenues and jobs within our organization

Thank you for your consideration. Please do not hesitate to contact me with any questions.

Sincerely,
Your Name

We hope you will help out!

Coming up next week, several of Nuvera’s staff will be blogging daily from the National Hydrogen Association Annual Conference and the Edison Electric Institute Spring Meeting. Check back often to see the scoop!

NHA 2008 has the unique opportunity to spark dialogue between different players in the hydrogen marketplace, from the DOE to early commercial fuel cell producers to environmentalist groups and big name energy and auto companies.

EEI brings together the electric industry and their biggest customers, along with anyone that has an interest in either.

The bloggers:

Bill Mitchell is our VP of Sales and Marketing and will be blogging from the NHA conference. Look for updates from Bill on state and regional hydrogen initiatives.

James Cross is our VP of Technology and Product Development. He is moderating a session on Wednesday at NHA titled Fuel Cells: Improvements and Analysis.

Gus Block is a Marketing Director, and spends most of his time working with our partner, East Penn Manufacturing, on fuel cell material handling solutions for North America. Look for his posts coming from the EEI Spring meeting.

Danielle Andre - I’ll be checking in periodically from the EEI Spring meeting in sunny Florida!

For our other events, check out our events listing.

Welcome to Nuvera’s very first blog post.

My name is Danielle Andre, and I’m the Marketing Communications Specialist here at Nuvera, and now the newly-titled blog supervisor. Think of me as a highway patrol person, whose job it is to monitor the communication super highway that flows in and out of Nuvera every day. I want you to think of this blog as a fast lane. Well, more like an environmentally-friendly car pool lane, where you can have open conversations about alternative energy. Post your question in the comment section after a post, and it will be answered in the spirit of research, development and commercialization.

Along with the new blog, you may have noticed we are also debuting a new web site. We’ve updated our format, increased our usability and given you a lot more access (check out the Technical Library section!).

  What do you think? Is our new website more user friendly?