NYPA buys 8 fuel cell power plants for NY City
Date: 20-Dec-01
Country: USA
The 200-kilowatt PC25 power units will produce power for four wastewater
plants in Brooklyn, Staten Island, the Bronx and Queens, UTC said in a
statement.
Waste gas produced in the water treatment process will fuel the power
plant.
With the addition of these eight units, a total of 17 fuel cell plants
will supply electricity for New York City area facilities including the
police station in Manhattan's Central Park, North Central Bronx Hospital
and St. Vincent's Hospital on Staten Island, and the Conde Nast building
at 4 Times Square.
Fuel cells use hydrogen to produced electricity leaving heat and water
as the primary byproducts.
UTC Fuel Cells, formerly known as International Fuel Cells, has
manufactured the fuel cell plants since 1991, delivering more than 235
of them to customers in 19 countries.
