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Growing Demand For Electricity in The USA: Fuel Cell Energy Scores With Major Order to Supply Fuel Cell Power in Conncecticut

Danbury, USA - The US fuel cell and hydrogen company Fuel Cell Energy has announced the construction of a 7.4 MW fuel cell system in Hartford, Connecticut. The plant will generate base load power and feed it into the local grid.

The power generated by the fuel cell system will be sold to local utilities Eversource and United Illuminating under a 20-year power purchase agreement (PPA). Fuel Cell Energy expects the project to add more than $160 million in future revenue to Fuel Cell Energy's ‘generation backlog,’ a queue of new power generation projects, through the power purchase agreement.

Once completed, the project in Hartford is expected to improve the stability of the public power grid in an important load area that supplies significant commercial and industrial consumers in the region.

„We appreciate the state's goal of increasing ‘always on’ electric supply--especially from sources that use low-emission natural gas and avoid combusting the fuel, virtually eliminating SOx, NOx, and other particulate matter from emissions for better air quality“, commented Fuel Cell Energy CEO Jason Few on the contract signing.

„FuelCell Energy is proud to support Connecticut’s grid and demonstrate our distributed technology’s ability to deliver faster time to power. We are well positioned to participate in the renaissance of infrastructure investments occurring in the U.S. at a time when the federal government is clearly signaling a focus on how AI will impact our electrical grid“, Few continued.



Source: IWR Online, 23 Jan 2025

 


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