Ground has been broken for the Dominion Bridgeport Fuel Cell Project in Bridgeport, Conn., a 14.9 MW fuel cell park, which will be the largest in the United States upon completion. FuelCell Energy will build, operate and maintain the facility under contract to Dominion. FuelCell Energy is supplying five Direct FuelCell stationary fuel cell power …Continue Reading
Ballard Power Systems launched its next generation fuel cell stack, FCgen-1020ACS, with a number of enhancements for the telecom backup power and material handling commercial markets. The fuel cell stack was originally designed for integration into a complete system to provide short duration telecom backup power in the event of electrical grid failure. But Ballard …Continue Reading
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Verizon is to invest $100 million in solar and fuel-cell energy projects with SunPower and ClearEdge Power that will help power 19 of its facilities in seven states across the country. When completed next year, the project will enable Verizon to annually generate more than 70 million kWh of its own green energy while eliminating more than 10,000 metric tons …Continue Reading
Penn State University is creating an Energy Efficient Buildings (EEB) Hub at Philadelphia’s Navy Yard, involving both a new building and the renovation of a 1940s building. Officials broke ground on the project last week, and it is expected to be complete by January 2014. Paul Hallacher, director of the EEB Hub, said Navy Yard …Continue Reading
US automotive manufacturers are continually striving to develop new fuel efficiency technologies and measures in order to adhere to domestic regulations that determine the amount of fuel automobiles can use. In the US, the Corporate Average Fuel Economy (CAFE) standards require that new passenger cars and light trucks achieve an average fuel economy of 54.5 …Continue Reading
Unveiled at Walmart’s Global Sustainability Milestone Meeting, the company committed to achieving the following by Dec. 31, 2020: 1) Drive the production or procurement of 7 billion kWh of renewable energy globally every year, a 600 percent increase over 2010 levels; 2) Reduce the kWh per square foot energy intensity required to power Walmart’s buildings …Continue Reading
A wastewater treatment plant in California run by Inland Empire Utilities is providing 60 percent of its power from a fuel cell that makes energy from the sewage that the plant produces. Regional Water Recycling Plant No. 1 is located about 40 miles east of Los Angeles and has been treating sewage since 1948, reports Slate. But …Continue Reading
For its newest retail distribution center in Wilmer, Texas, Ace Hardware will deploy 65 GenDrive fuel cell units from Plug Power for its fleet of electric lift trucks. Plug Power‘s GenDrive units competed against lead-acid batteries and fast charge batteries to be deemed the best power source for the material handling fleet. A spokesman for …Continue Reading
American Honda Motor Co. installed a stationary fuel cell system on its Torrance, Calif., campus that will produce 1 MW and reduce CO2 emissions from Honda’s operations in the region. The fuel cell system consists of five energy servers each producing 200 kW, and will provide 25 percent of Honda’s electricity needs for its 1.13-million-sq-feet …Continue Reading
