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Tuesday, June 19, 2012 by Christine Feary
Ceramic Fuel Cells’ gas to electricity technology to be used in Netherlands virtual power plant

Ceramic Fuel Cells (ASX: CFU, AIM: CFU) has secured a Virtual Power Plant project in the Netherlands which will utilise the company’s BlueGen gas to electricity generators.

BlueGen units will be installed with customers across the Netherlands, creating a community of distributed energy producers that is connected through the internet and operated as a virtual power plant.

Already three BlueGen units have been installed with energy consultants Kiwa Gastec, to test their compatibility with the designed system. This provides a regulated environment for the early testing phases.

Initial testing will take about one year and will include examination of the impact of extreme modulation cycles. The project will be scaled up in the second half of 2012 and into 2013.

The virtual power plant project is a partnership between Ceramic’s distribution partner BlueGeneration, Dutch regional network operator Liander and IBM (NYSE: IBM).

The three companies will design a platform on which the virtual power plant can run, with Liander and IBM to design the technical requirements and define the use cases for the platform.

Liander distributes electricity to 3 million customers and gas to 2.3 million customers in the Netherlands.

Incorporating the virtual power plant into its Smart Grid will allow Liander to locally balance the demand and supply of electricity, lowering energy costs.

IBM will provide system integration to control the BlueGen units remotely, utilising its experience in the field of Smart Grids.