ClearEdge Power units for Universal Studios Hollywood theme park
- Book ID
- 104437806
- Publisher
- Elsevier Science
- Year
- 2011
- Tongue
- English
- Weight
- 77 KB
- Volume
- 2011
- Category
- Article
- ISSN
- 1464-2859
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✦ Synopsis
In the Netherlands, an industry consortium has installed a solid oxide fuel cell power plant in a 17th century canal house, De Groene Bocht, in the center of Amsterdam. The BlueGen™ SOFC technology -supplied by Australianbased Ceramic Fuel Cells Ltd -will enable the occupants to produce onsite most of the electricity they need. CFCL has also received confirmation of the conditional order for up to 200 integrated CHP units it received last fall from German utility EWE. This is the first time that this technology has been applied in an office environment in the Netherlands. The electrical efficiency of the BlueGen unit is over 60%; in addition, the recovered heat is used for domestic hot water, bringing the total efficiency above 85%. In the short term the unit will run on 'green' gas, making the unit's operation climate-neutral.
'This is an important first step into the heritage market for BlueGen, which can help older buildings -which have notoriously poor carbon emission credentials due to their age -substantially improve their carbon footprint,' says Paddy Thompson, general manager for business development at CFCL. This project fits well with the strategy of the various parties in the consortium -Cool Endeavour, Eneco, Liander, GasTerra, and Amsterdam Smart City -to accelerate the transition to clean energy. In this energy transition the use of sustainably produced gas and