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21 April 2006 - California State University has purchased a 1 MW ultra clean fuel cell power plant from FuelCell Energy and its partner Alliance Power.
According to FuellCell Energy, the unit will be the single largest fuel cell power plant at any University in the world and is the seventh DirectFuelCell plant of any capacity installed at a University.
The combined heat and power fuel cell plant will help the University meet its green energy mandate. It will generate base load electricity for its facilities and surplus heat for hot water. Uniquely, the University also has plans to route exhaust from the heat exchanger into an adjacent greenhouse and arboretum to enhance photosynthesis, boosting plant growth and harvests by 10 to 40 per cent.
The carbon dioxide enrichment potential provided by the fuel cell plant may be used for specialized plant research, or as a convention of study within the regular biology academic programme.
The DirectFuelCell power plant will be commissioned in the second half of 2006 and operated by the University with technical support from FuelCell Energy and Alliance Power.
A study conducted by the US Department of Energy has estimated that the combined hear and power market potential for college and University applications in California exceeds 340 MW.
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