Sep 4 2007
Ceramic Fuel Cells Ltd (Noble Park, VIC, Australia), a global leader in fuel cell development, announced last week that Gledhill Water Storage had been selected as its UK appliance partner, to join the project announced in July 2007 with E.ON UK to develop and deploy 1kW micro-combined heat and power (m-CHP) units for the UK market.
The three companies will work together to develop a fully-integrated m-CHP unit, which incorporates CFCL’s fuel cells, for the residential market. These highly efficient units are designed to power homes whilst reducing carbon emissions in a drive for cleaner energy generation.
As previously announced, CFCL will supply a NetGen+ unit for operation with a boiler and a specially designed thermal store to produce an ‘Alpha’ prototype which will then be deployed in a field trial. The current project remains on schedule for the NetGen+ unit to be delivered by December 2007 and the Alpha unit to be developed in Q2 2008.
Mark Foster, Managing Director of Gledhill Water Storage, said: “We are pleased to be a partner on such a highly prestigious development. This recognises the key role of intelligent thermal storage systems in maximising the performance of alternative energy sources”.
Brendan Dow, Managing Director of CFCL, said: “Climate change is an issue that requires urgent attention, and we are proud to be working on developing a solution to address the environmental impact of modern power generation, through reducing carbon emissions from the home.
“This agreement completes our initial partnering objectives in Europe, with four utility and four appliance partners in place across four key markets. We look forward to working with both E.ON UK and Gledhill in our drive for cleaner power generation in the UK.”