The
close collaboration and cooperation of the Naval
Facilities Engineering Command, Sandia National
Laboratories and Plug Power enabled the demonstration
of twenty fuel cells installed across America to
be a complete success. The mission of this project
was to demonstrate the performance of current fuel
cell technology used as a distributed energy resource
near residential size loads. The fuel cells used
throughout this project were the SU1 GenSysTM 5CS,
5kW PEM fuel cell, developed by Plug Power Inc.
The project was managed by Sandia National Laboratories,
and funded by the Naval Facilities Engineering Command.
The
twenty fuel cells were widely distributed to various
Naval Support Units across America, with eight in
New York, eleven in California and one in Hawaii.
The various fuel cell sites offered an assortment
of combined Heat and Power (CHP) utilization schemes
such as swimming pools, residential domestic hot
water, and a laundromat. These sites were carefully
chosen for their CHP utilization.
Fuel
cells overall performance statistics for all twenty
units are given in the table.
| Start
Date |
8/10/2004
|
| Thru
Date |
8/31/2005
|
| Hours
of Operation (Hours) |
132,149.3 |
| kWh
Output (kWh) |
325,415.5 |
| Fuel
Consumption (MMBTU) |
4,354.4 |
| Electrical
Efficiency% |
25.52 % |
| Availability
% |
95.27
% |
| Capacity
Factor % |
47.06
% |
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