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from Japan's largest gas utility, Tokyo Gas, which will be installed and demonstrated at its testing laboratory in Tokyo.
Ceramic Fuel Cells' local partner in California, Smart Hybrid Systems Inc, will provide local installation and support services, including integrating the BlueGen fuel cell unit with thermal and electrical management systems as well as metering equipment. Smart Hybrid Systems, which manufactures energy appliances, also plans to develop innovative hybrid fuel cell and energy storage products utilizing Ceramic Fuel Cells' SOFC as the core generator of electricity and heat.
'Together with our existing sales in Europe, Japan and Australia, this sends a strong message about the size of the global markets that Ceramic Fuel Cells is targeting,' comments managing director Brendan Dow. 'It is exciting for us that large utilities, not only in the US but throughout the western world, are investing seriously in lowemission power generation.'
The compact BlueGen system -designed for use in homes and other buildings -uses patented SOFC technology to convert natural gas into electricity and heat with very high efficiency. CFCL says that BlueGen units can generate electricity at a peak electrical efficiency of 60%, far higher than any other technology in the large global market for small-scale electricity generation. When heat is recovered for hot water the total efficiency is up to 85%, twice as efficient as the current power grid.
The BlueGen unit for Tokyo Gas was ordered by Mitsui & Co, one of Japan's leading trading companies, which has a long-established focus on energy including renewables and fuel cells. The order from Tokyo Gas follows orders for two BlueGen units from Japan's second-largest gas utility, Osaka Gas, also arranged through Mitsui [FCB, April 2010].
Tokyo Gas has a strategic plan to expand its activities into generating and selling electricity, to become an integrated energy supply company. The company has long experience with home heating and cogeneration products. As of March 2010, Tokyo Gas had installed 1500 residential PEM fuel cell units, with forecasts of rapid growth to more than 40 000 units by 2014.
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