Lilliputian secures additional dollar;28m in venture funding
- Publisher
- Elsevier Science
- Year
- 2009
- Tongue
- English
- Weight
- 105 KB
- Volume
- 2009
- Category
- Article
- ISSN
- 1464-2859
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✦ Synopsis
Plug Power will validate the durability of its 5 kW stationary CHP fuel cell system, and verify commercial readiness. The firm will conduct a three-year project to test its units in residential and light commercial applications in California, working with UC Irvine's National Fuel Cell Research Center and Southern California Gas. Plug Power will install and operate new GenCore ® backup power systems in real-world applications at geographically diverse sites. GENCO will deploy 156 fuel cell systems as battery replacements for fleets of electric lift trucks at six distribution centers in Pennsylvania, Ohio, and South Carolina. Sysco will deploy 90 fuel cell systems as battery replacements for a fleet of pallet trucks at its new distribution center in Houston, Texas due to open in August. This installation will be the world's first greenfield installation without the battery infrastructure for a pallet truck fleet. Sprint Nextel in Virginia will demonstrate the viability of packaged 1 kW to 10 kW fuel cell systems with 72 h of onsite fuel storage for backup power to the communication infrastructure used by state and local firstresponders and 911 centers. ReliOn will add reliability to a utility communications network with no previous backup power, at 25 sites throughout central and northern California. The company will deploy 180 fuel cells with a new refillable 72 h fuel system to locations across the AT&T Mobility Network.