FYI two BlueGen Articles

Two news articles about recent BlueGen installations.

Energy future in Ophover mill
A new cogeneration unit in combination with a fuel cell (BlueGen) saving 115,000 Euro over 15 Years.
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First private fuel cell plant in Bavaria is available in Fichtheim
First privately-funded fuel cell system put into operation in Bavaria.
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The two articles are translated below:



Energy future in Ophover mill

August 21, 2014
Wegberg




Operator Holger Hendricks (. R) explains Mayor Michael Stock, the CHP, which was installed in a side room of the mill Ophover PHOTO:.Jürgen Laas


Wegberg. Ophover The mill has a new cogeneration unit in combination with a fuel cell. Not only the restaurant, but also the spaces of the SC and TC Wegberg Wegberg benefit from the technology. Anke From Backhaus
On energy, the Ophover mill for the future upgraded. The old heating system, more than 30 years old, is now history, but instead is now a cogeneration unit in combination with a fuel cell on the grid. Holger and Ulrike Hendricks, the owner of the historic Ophover mill, now electricity and heat even produce loud Holger Hendricks This is a vision at the start -. Heat and electricity from one source, lower energy costs and a more environmentally friendly and uninterrupted supply.

Although the walls of the historic mill are very old (they date from the 17th century), but from an energy perspective, the Ophover mill has arrived in the present. In cooperation with the company GC Wärmedienste from Neuss and the heating engineer Jürgen Hohnen Holger and Ulrike Hendricks opted for the core redevelopment of the old central heating system.

In advance Holger Hendricks had intensively researched in order to save costs for the operation of the restaurant. Bottom line turned out in the search for alternatives that also the adjacent spaces of the SC and TC Wegberg Wegberg could benefit. "Our old system was ailing and caused high consumption costs," Hendricks explained his step. With the use of a fuel cell, the brand BlueGen and an EC-power cogeneration plant in combination with a gas-fired condensing boiler for peak loads now supplies the latest technology, the mill and the two neighboring club rooms.

The new system covers the entire demand of the building. A possible overproduction is fed into the public grid and remunerated.

Wegbergs Mayor Michael Stock convinced himself even from the new cogeneration plant in the Ophover mill. He welcomed the commitment of the operator and said: "Cutting edge technology that is environmentally friendly and future-oriented, housed in historic walls - hence, the Ophover mill Wegbergs new flagship when it comes to energy."

The company GC Wärmedienste and Holger and Ulrike Hendricks have a contract for 15 years closed. During this period, savings of 115,000 euros are predicted. For a monthly fee, the operators get the maintenance, servicing and repairs included. The investment costs (70,000 EUR) took over the company in Neuss.

A crucial factor in cooperation with GC Wärmedienste from Neuss included the possibility of autonomous choice of energy and CO2 savings of the new system for the kauniainen Holger and Ulrike Hendricks.

Source: RP






Saturday, July 19, 2014
LANDAUER ZEITUNG / VILSTALER NEWSPAPER

First private fuel cell plant in Bavaria is available in Fichtheim:
A highly efficient micro-power plant in the basement
In the House of Dr. Markus Thannhuber is currently the most modern energy technology in use


V. l. House Mr. Dr. Markus Thannhuber, Markus sad, plant manager Alois Wanninger, Mayor Helmut Steininger and CFC's Managing Director Franz Obernitz. (Photo: WIMBERGER)


Landau. (hw) For the introduction of new energy-saving technology, it needs not only the developers and manufacturers, but also people who use this new technique. One likes to call them pioneers, because they are ones that take not only the at the beginning of the often high costs, but especially the indispensable in everyday experience. As such Pioneer Dr. Markus Thannhuber must feel, he set up but the first private fuel cell system in Bavaria in his basement.

Six, where even harmless ran the gas powered micro power plant and the home of the Thannhubers in Fichtheim continuously supplied with electricity and heat, months after the installation. Now, Thannhuber was invited to report. Interested guests were also Mayor Helmut Steininger and public utilities Director Alois Wanninger, which the CEO of the manufacturer, the german Australian company of ceramic fuel cells, Franz Obernitz from Heinsberg in Aachen, and farmer Markus Schachtner from Eichendorf answer stood. Master of the House briefly on the history accepted, he "looked at much" looking for an alternative source of energy. After he first had a pellet-fed small CHP favors, he discovered on the fuel cell technology.

Four years that is here again. Thannhuber packed in a large refrigerator box long by the technology, is convinced: so far you could use restricted CHP and similar systems, since they produce tend to be very much heat, which you can use during the warmer summer months. Then, the unit stands still and also doesn't deliver power. When the fuel cell is different: "generates much power and little heat and can run as ever, all year long." With the world's highest electrical efficiency of 60 percent, the device of type BlueGEN saves 50 percent of CO2 emissions. This is no small leap, but a large, agreed to.

The technical data of the plant, which produces electrical energy up to 13 000 kilowatt hours a year and whose overall efficiency including the THERMIE is up to 85 percent, attracting the technology also for utilities and municipal utilities. Therefore, Stadtwerke Landau have accompanied the installation, which was carried out by the company sad from oak village in cooperation with electric Rafols of Landau. In highly efficient fuel cells, also plant manager Alois Wanninger technology sees great potential for the future. Therefore you have accompanied the installation like.

Several BlueGEN units were already tested in Bavaria in the framework of demonstration projects and field trials. Over 450 plants in ten countries are already in operation. The first private investment but now stands in the town of Landau. It, nothing to sneeze at, but an amount, which could significantly decrease for higher quantities, so Frank Obernitz 25 000 euros. A Government push would be helpful now, he hinted: the innovative devices are promoted in North Rhine-Westphalia, Saxony, Hesse and Baden-Württemberg by the provincial governments with an investment grant and recorded by many trade partners in its product portfolio. In Bavaria, there is currently no corresponding promotion, but hope both manufacturers and potential customers, that also here the policy recognizes the incalculable benefits of this technology and follows the example of other provinces.

Mayor Helmut Steininger was certainly impressed by highly efficient and innovative fuel cell technology. "So that citizens can make a decisive contribution to the energy revolution, and we want to support that." And not only that: he can well imagine that the city precedes set a good example, and like the VHS building installs such a micro power plant in new construction projects.



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