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FuelCell Energy Demonstrates Rapid Fuel Switch

FuelCell Energy, Inc. (NasdaqNM:FCEL), has completed a successful demonstration of its stationary power plants’ ability to switch rapidly between fuels, validating the systems’ capacity to guard against fuel supply interruptions from natural disasters or security issues at mission-critical facilities. Evaluated in conjunction with Concurrent Technologies Corporation (CTC), operators of the Department of Defense (DoD) Fuel Cell Test and Evaluation Center (FCTec) in Johnstown, Pa., the power plant continued to generate base load electricity on a secondary fuel supply (propane) when the loss of its primary fuel source (natural gas) was triggered during testing. This rapid fuel switch was successfully demonstrated more than 40 times during operations exceeding 3000 hours. The R&D project is being sponsored by the federal government to demonstrate the “dual fuel” capability of Direct FuelCell (DFC) power plants. CTC is the primary contractor to the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers, involving its Engineer Research and Development Center’s Construction Engineering Research Laboratory (ERDC-CERL). FuelCell Energy and CTC operated a sub-megawatt DFC power plant on HD-5 propane fuel at full load achieving an electrical efficiency of 46 percent. The Johnstown plant continues to operate, having accumulated a total of 3060 hours on propane and generated 425 Megawatt hours (MWh) […]

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International Energy Treaties Global Database Launched

The Energy and Environmental Security Initiative (EESI), an interdisciplinary center at the University of Colorado Law School has unveiled an online global database of international energy treaties. Sponsored by the Renewable Energy and Energy Efficiency Partnership (REEEP), the database is called the International Sustainable Energy Assessment (ISEA) and contains in-force energy treaties from all 192 countries in the world dealing with some 45 energy-related subject areas. Commenting on the launch of the ISEA database, U.S. Senator Richard Lugar (R), Chairman of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, remarked: “This is an invaluable database. It will be a useful tool in our diplomatic efforts to chart a sustainable energy future with our international partners.” Senator Lugar recently introduced the Energy Diplomacy and Security Act (EDSA) in the U.S. Senate, which has garnered bipartisan sponsorship from eleven U.S. senators. The EDSA seeks to use new and existing international agreements to enhance energy security and promote the use of sustainable energy. According to Dr. Lakshman Guruswamy, EESI Director and CU Law’s Nicholas Doman Professor of International Environmental Law, the genesis of the ISEA project “arose out of the recognition that the challenges in moving to a more sustainable global energy regime cannot be solved […]

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A Dated Carbon Approach

URL: http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2006/07/09/AR2006070900537.html Website: http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2006/07/09/AR2006070900537.html     

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