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17 November 2004 - Caterpillar Inc. and FuelCell Energy Inc. have reached an agreement to bring online one of the first utility-scale fuel cell power plants in North America.
Herbert T. Nock, FuelCell Energy's senior vice president of marketing and sales, said, "The state of Ohio and the city of Westerville are showing how Direct FuelCell (DFC) power plants, which create hydrogen internally, can be used to bring clean, reliable power to the people of Ohio without waiting for the deployment of a hydrogen supply infrastructure."
The 250 kW DFC power plant creates the hydrogen it needs from natural gas and will feed power to consumers from a substation. The project is funded in part through governor Bob Taft's $103m Third Frontier Fuel Cell Initiative programme.
This announcement follows an alliance agreement, created and signed in 2002 by Caterpillar Inc. and FuelCell Energy Inc., to distribute and develop ultra low emission fuel cell power generation products for industrial and commercial use.
The unit is manufactured by FuelCell Energy and distributed by Caterpillar. The fuel cell power plant is located at Westerville's electric substation and when fully operational it will produce enough energy to power 180 homes.
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