Sept. 28, 2004: FuelCell Energy To Provide Fuel Cell For Army R&D
DANBURY, Conn. - FuelCell Energy Inc. has entered into a cooperative research and development agreement with the U.S. Army Engineer Research and Development Center/Construction Engineering Research Laboratory (ERDC-CERL) and will provide a 250-kilowatt Direct FuelCell (DFC) power plant to the Department of Defense Fuel Cell Test and Evaluation Center (FCTec) for evaluation in a combined heat and power application. This distributed generation fuel cell system will supply electricity and its byproduct heat will be coupled with an absorption chiller.
The power plant will be located in Johnstown, Pa., operated by Concurrent Technologies Corporation (CTC). CTC will operate and maintain the DFC unit in a combined power and cooling application using natural gas as the supply fuel for the system. CTC will monitor and report on the operating and maintenance parameters of the DFC power plant and heat recovery equipment, including all auxiliaries.