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"Utility EWE (to) build 60 more a fuel cell heating (21/08/2013)
"Final testing phase" before the launch

Also thanks to the recent EWE order pay off for CFC automated manufacturing process - here the production of fuel cell stacks. Image: CFC


Since 2010, the EWE Energie AG cooperates with the manufacturer of micro power plants based on fuel cells CFC. About 70 CFC fuel cell heating EWE has since been installed, especially the already established today BlueGen aggregates. The different generations of devices have been proven in more than 500,000 hours in the homes of EWE customers high reliability. Well, the Lower Saxony utility has ordered a further 60 plants for a new test series. The new micro-CHP systems now used combine high-temperature fuel type SOFC with a gas condensing boiler as a supplementary heater. Both components are integrated into a compact housing and individually controllable. Thus the plant can optimally adapt the yearly electricity and heat demand of houses and small businesses. Beistelllösung as they are primarily focused on optimizing power generation. The integrated fuel cell systems complement the future BlueGen systems and the growing demand for compact systems.

When now starting practical use final system improvements are under consideration: the units of the new series are distinguished according to the manufacturer by an improved power control and an optimized thermal efficiency of the fuel cell unit. He is about 85 percent - with an electrical efficiency of up to 60 percent. The cooperation partners, in addition to CFC EWE and this is also the heating Bruns Brothers GmbH, see the integrated fuel cell systems "on the home stretch before the launch." With the tests of the last step of the pre-series will ushered to marketable product. The launch will take place after the required certification process in 2014.

The joint development and demonstration project of EWE and Bruns and CFC is funded by the federal government through the National Innovation Programme for Hydrogen and Fuel Cell Technology of NOW."

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